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Buyer of Pirate Bay, a File-Sharing Site, Plans to Go Legal

Jun. 30, 2009
Global Gaming Factory X said that it had bought the Pirate Bay for $7.8 million and that it would start a business model intended to compensate both content operators and copyright owners.
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch