There's a lot of misinformation going on right now. The original Pirate Bay founders are saying one thing, the new owners said something different in their press release, and then the new owners said something TOTALLY different after the press release in an interview.
I want to wait to see how this goes down. The Pirate Bay was already had corprate owners in Sweden as of 2006. (Though the owners were anonymous. Nobody knows who they were) So it's not as simple as the headlines make it out to be. "Pirate Bay Sells Out".
You had to see this coming, too. The Pirate Bay website is one of the most popular websites on the Internet. And it's run by only 3 guys, and they've been doing it alone for years. They can't keep that up forever, eventually they have to move on to something else.