{"id":191736,"date":"2009-06-30T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/30\/pirate-bay-sells-site\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:38:00","slug":"pirate-bay-sells-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/30\/pirate-bay-sells-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Bay Sells Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gaming firm Global Gaming Factory X AB  has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/06\/30\/pirate_bay_gaming_factory_x_ab\/\">agreed to buy the bit-torrent hub Pirate Bay for $7.7 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So it appears that their business model was:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to court.<\/li>\n<li>Get a judgement against them for $3.6 million.<\/li>\n<li>Sell the site for &amp;7.7 million.<\/li>\n<li>Collect underpants.<\/li>\n<li>Profit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gaming firm Global Gaming Factory X AB has agreed to buy the bit-torrent hub Pirate Bay for $7.7 million. So it appears that their business model was: Go to court. Get a judgement against them for $3.6 million. Sell the site for &amp;7.7 million. Collect underpants. Profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1134,997,1109,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-copyright","category-internet","category-ip","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}