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The Pirate Bay to Charge Users a Monthly Fee

Steven Finch — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:27:03 +0000

It was reported that The Pirate Bay was sold last month for $7.8 million. In the past few days there has been a lot more news about how The Pirate Bay will change within the new ownership and how they plan to turn the site into a legal entity.

The new owners GGF have appointed a new CEO Wayne Rosso who has previous experience in failing p2p services – came out with a few crucial additional details on the site’s future business model. osso said that under the new management, the 3.7 million Pirate Bay users (or whatever userbase remains) will have to pay a monthly fee to access the site.

The money collected from user subscriptions and advertising revenue will then be used to pay off the copyright holders. The exact monthly fee is yet to be decided, but Rosso did confirm that the more files people share, the lower it will be.

“The more of your computer resources you contribute to the network, the less you pay down to zero,” Rosso told Cnet.

I dont really think that new owners GGF understand the concept behind The Pirate Bay and that the only reason the community uses the site is because it is free. Thus a Pirate Bay in which users have to pay is going to do little or no traffic compared to the current numbers and thus will have an impact on advertising revenues, thus them not being able to pay copyright holders and then losing content.

I think The Pirate Bay guys have the right idea about selling the site and then moving on to a completely new project like The Video Bay.

Zero S: Electric Motorcycle with 31 horsepower

Steven Finch — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:47:25 +0000

Zero Motorcycles has put together an electric motorcycle that has 31 horsepower, 62.5 lbs. of torque, and hits top speeds of about 60MPH. The new motorcycle is called the Zero S and it is a follow-up to the Zero X, a bike that had about a 20 horsepower engine.

The Zero S can drive about 60 miles without needing a recharge. To recharge the full battery, it takes about 4 hours. The Zero S is made of aircraft grade aluminum and has a custom Z-Force power pack for acceleration.

The cost of the bike is about $10,000 or putting $1,000 as a down-payment. The Zero S will begin shipping in May.

Increase The Sound Volume on your 3G iPhone with SoundClip

Steven Finch — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:02:19 +0000

Ten One Design has created a way to boost the sound for your iPhone 3G. The product is called SoundClip and it increases the sound by about 10dB with signal between 6kHz and 20kHz.

This would be useful to people that especially love to listen to music through the built-in speaker, but the device just gets in the way of iPhone gamers in landscape mode.

Storing the SounClip is simple. There is a cord-gripping feature that keeps it fastened to your iPhone charge cable during syncing and charging. To buy the device, visit Ten One’s website here.