Comments on: ThePirateBay – April Fools! Not Moving to Egypt

By: barbanza

barbanza — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Well one tracker had the worst joke ever on april 1st there was a sign from the MPAA saying they took over I almost had a heart attack…

By: MC_Justice

MC_Justice — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

no-one believed it WASN’T an April Fools joke……you do know that right?

By: Ben Jones

Ben Jones — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Be VERY careful about putting words into peoples mouths.
We at torrentFreak knew of the hoaxes beforehand. i personally talked to Brokep on the 31st about it. The same with the EZTV admins and their joke and helped bt-chat with the story for theirs.

Anyone who even pretends to conduct journalism (of any sort) should know better. Shame on you Drew Wilson and your sloppy slapdash approach. It’s not like myself or Brokep the admins at bt-chat or at EZTV are hard to contact; you just couldn’t be bothered.

In case you never noticed check the tags on the post – I thought the more observant would have noticed the ‘AF’ there (and has been there since the start) AF as in April Fools. The other major clue should have been that we and especially I do not tend to cover two stories in one report let alone FIVE. That in itself should have given it away.

Ben Jones
TorrentFreak.com

By: Slycktom

Slycktom — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Apparently Drew Wilson fell for it hook line and sinker…

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

If someone can point out exactly where I said “torrentfreak fell for this hoax” I’d greatly appreciate it and edit that out. Why would I have shame for noting that TorrentFreak posted about this? Was it not posted about there? I’m sorry you took offense to me pointing out that you reported on the issue. Correct me if I’m wrong of course. Naturally. I’m always open to suggestions.

You’re a funny person Tom. If you can’t compete throw a few lies about the competition. It’s not like this is the first time you’ve done this to me OR TorrentFreak anyway.

By: Ben Jones

Ben Jones — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Where there was a comma has now been changed at some point. Initially it read as if I said ‘That one escaped me’. for that reason its considered good english to start a new line or paragraph when directly quoting different people

It would behoove you to double-check punctuation and phraseology to avoid easily confused or mis-read statements. Might do you well to get a copy of the AP stylebook too – it’s often included in many journalism textbooks (my preference is Reporting for the Media – love my battered old 7th ed copy and pages 225-226 address the problem that caused the initial misunderstanding)

By: Evolver

Evolver — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I didn’t buy it for a second. For those guys to announce it on April fools day was so obvious. On top of that they will go to jail before they move. These guys represent the little guy in fighting for our rights to share music and the like.