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Death of The Pirate Bay

After all the struggle The Pirate Bay team went through over the years trying to run the world’s most popular Torrent Tracker (Most notorius among Media studios), the surrender seemed very meak and unexpected.

There were dozen times I expected the eventual death, once their servers were raided a few years back and recently after the verdict, but the TPB team still vowed to fight back. But to dismay of millions of users, Swedish media brought out the news of sales of the TPB to swedish Gaming company ‘Global Gaming Factory’.

Though the blog entry in Pirate Bay said this is a way to make the company legal, everyone knows the TPB users arent there for legal content. It would be interesting to see if  Hollywood studios are really behind the acquisition or if the Global Gaming Factory is really independant.

The end of the TPB doesn’t put an end to piracy as this will bring other sites like mininova, ISOHunt ,demonoid and  local torrent sites in different parts of the world into fore.

To know more about the history of  ‘ The Pirate Bay’  please visit wikipedia page on Pirate Bay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay .

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TATA Nano allotment status links- check if you have got your Nano

TATA Motors announced today the allotment results and when we tried to find the delivery dates  almost 60% people had delivery dates from October 2010 to December 2010 and 30-40% in the July 2010 to Septembet 2010 ranges. There were customers who have to wait even longer.  The website TATA Motors has setup is not exactly secure if you know just one UIN number (especially if you ordered online) , you can just increment or decrement from your number and check status of many would be NANOers.

I did check almost 50 such numbers and most of them were for delivery between Oct 2010 – Dec 2010. Many were also for Jul 2010-Sep 2010. So dont expect a Nano attack on roads anytime soon.

You can check whether you are lucky or not by entering your UIN number in the following link

Check TATA Nano allotment status

http://tatanano.inservices.tatamotors.com/tatamotors/index.php?option=com_allotment&Itemid=303

You will start getting the TATA Nano allotment letters through Postal service but, checking online is much faster. Also its estimated that very few people will get TATA Nano this year. Most of the first one lakh will get the Nano in Jul-Sep 2010 or Oct-Dec 2010.

Checkout my allotment letter – Name Hidden to protect privacy.

TATA Nano allotment letter
TATA Nano allotment letter

There was little surprise in terms of the allotments and as I had written earlier in the  previous post TATA was prompt in announcing the allotments.

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Tata Nano Lottery results by the end of this week – First list of customers

TATA Motors is gearing up for a busy week.  If all goes well TATA Motors will announce the list of the first 1,00,000 customers to get the worlds cheapest car. The TATA Nano bookings closed on April 25 and it is almost two months.

It is expected that the first car will be handed over to first lucky customer (TATA motors will pick a low income person) in a grand function in the first week of July. 70% of the customers have decided to wait even if they dont get the car in the lottery.