Most Pirate Bay users were genuinely upset when they found out that their favorite torrent site would be acquired by Global Gaming Factory (GGF) at the end of August. For a small subset of these fans, this move is more than an inked deal, as the coolness and even the credibility of their tattoos is in jeopardy.

Two weeks from now The Pirate Bay as we know it will cease to exist. To gain access to the site users of the new Pirate Bay will be charged a monthly fee, and even then it remains to be seen what files they will have access to.

Although GGF has promised only minor changes to the design and functionality of the site, the free for all spirit that defined what TPB stands for now, will be gone for good. Instead of mocking the copyright holders, the site’s new owners are actively negotiating with MPAA and RIAA members to work out distribution deals.

For those fans dedicated enough to have acquired a Pirate Bay tattoo, the upcoming TPB sale and these distribution deals might be causing sleepless nights. It is of course needless to say that few of the current Pirate Bay fans would like to have the logo of a Hollywood approved operation tattooed on their arm, chest or forehead.

One of The Pirate Bay’s original crew members told TorrentFreak that they considered this potential embarrassment to their most visibly dedicated fans and therefore asked GGF to come up with a new logo to replace the existing one. In a recent blog post they confirm this.

“When TPB changes owner in the near future it has been agreed that the new owners will change the logo and some graphical details. We just want to inform the people that are upset about their t-shirts, tattoos or similar,” the TPB crew writes.

One of the people who actually has the infamous pirate ship logo tattooed on his arm is a user who goes by the name ‘maxpcuser’. He posted an image of the artwork at the site’s forums roughly a year ago but luckily, he wasn’t too upset when the Pirate Bay announced that it would sell the site.

“I am an American who had embraced the Pirate Bay so much as to tattoo their logo onto my arm to promote thepiratebay.org even though the bay will never be the same. Our Mantra will be the same, to continue to allow the free flow of information at any cost,” maxpcuser responded when he heard his favorite site was being acquired, adding “the Bay may be dead, it may not, only time will tell.”

What the new logo will look like is still a mystery, but one that will be solved on August 27. We hope for ‘maxpcuser’s sake it will be significantly different from the current one, or GGF should at least offer him a free lifetime membership.

Maxpcuser’s tattoo, as posted on Suprbay