Having just read on the IPKat about the sale of The Pirate Bay to Global Gaming Company for 60m kronor (£4.7m), I find myself wondering what sort of intellectual assets the purchaser is obtaining and how valuable they will prove to be.A couple of weeks ago I looked to see if The Pirate Bay had any trade marks. It didn't seem to have any registered and, if I recall correctly, its website indicated that consumers were free to do interesting and imaginative things to its logo and then send a sample back in order to show what they'd done. As for the software, my impression is that it was licensed in and was basically off-the-peg stuff. Its user database probably wouldn't be worth much, seeing as it consists primarily of people who are used to paying nothing for what they want.
If anyone has any thoughts on the subject or, better still, hard facts, do please let me know.
