The Pirate Bay was shut down by its ISP two days ago but the story is far from over. After several false-starts, the Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X has approved its CEO’s plans to purchase The Pirate Bay’s domain. The company intends to relaunch the service as a legal file sharing site.

We know that it’s hard to get PirateBay down, or rather it’s impossible.

Now, just because the board has approved the purchase doesn’t mean that it will happen that easily. There continue to be questions about the company’s ability to raise money to complete the deal, and the Swedish government is investigating the company.

So does this change anything? Theoretically, maybe, but in reality, the Pirate Bay as it was once known is still gone, if it does come back it won’t be the same service, and users have already migrated out to other BitTorrent sites for their file sharing needs. What’s next?

PirateBay Clone Threatened with LegaAction

On one side the parent is stuggling to be online, the new born clone faces Legal action. When we first heard about BTARENA, the first Pirate Bay clone, we figured at some point in time, the RIAA would point their crosshairs at BTARENA. That’s exactly what’s happening, according to the TorrentFreak blog — who was reportedly contacted by the Romanian AIMR (Asociatia Industriei Muzicale din Romani) with the following statement: “We are Music Industry Association of Romania, and we represent the local labels for both romanian and international content. The website btarena.org (The Pirate Bay clone) is hosted in Romania and we already started the legal action against it.” BTARENA’s owner, by the name of Alex, is apparently aware of the so-claimed legal action by means of local news reports. It is unknown how he will choose to proceed, but it is known that the site’s host was also contacted about the matter by the AIMR. The host stated they would relay the message to the site’s owner. As of this writing, the website is still up and running. Still, it seems like the statement produced by AIMR to TorrentFreak was written by a seven-year-old. Poor English skills, maybe?

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