Comments on: ‘Pirate Bay’s weird new business plan’ featured in BizWeek http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/02/pirate-bays-weird-new-business-plan-featured-in-bizweek/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:55:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/02/pirate-bays-weird-new-business-plan-featured-in-bizweek/comment-page-1/#comment-1093391 Steve Jordan Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:21:18 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/02/pirate-bays-weird-new-business-plan-featured-in-bizweek/#comment-1093391 <blockquote>He didn’t say how much he’ll pay—and concedes he hasn’t yet entered into discussions with any music and movie companies.</blockquote> Wait'll he sees the bill.

He didn’t say how much he’ll pay—and concedes he hasn’t yet entered into discussions with any music and movie companies.

Wait’ll he sees the bill.

]]> By: Paul Durrant http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/02/pirate-bays-weird-new-business-plan-featured-in-bizweek/comment-page-1/#comment-1093205 Paul Durrant Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:15:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/02/pirate-bays-weird-new-business-plan-featured-in-bizweek/#comment-1093205 It sounds to me like a business plan that will only lead to bankruptcy. The only thing the Pirate Bay has going for it is a large number of visitors to its web site. I can't see how they can restrict the torrents to authorised versions only and retain their large visitor numbers. And even the large visitor numbers don't seem to be a good source of revenue, since Pirate Bay visitors are either A) Unwilling or unable to spend money on entertainment media or B) Looking for items that are not commercially available. It sounds to me like a business plan that will only lead to bankruptcy. The only thing the Pirate Bay has going for it is a large number of visitors to its web site. I can’t see how they can restrict the torrents to authorised versions only and retain their large visitor numbers.

And even the large visitor numbers don’t seem to be a good source of revenue, since Pirate Bay visitors are either

A) Unwilling or unable to spend money on entertainment media

or

B) Looking for items that are not commercially available.

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