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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by dentonj on Monday March 10 2014, @02:27PM

    by dentonj (1309) on Monday March 10 2014, @02:27PM (#14161)

    For those of you not in irc, Barrabas received a payment from some unknown person(s). He is going to let the new owner of the domain name reveal themselves.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by moondrake on Monday March 10 2014, @02:33PM

    by moondrake (2658) on Monday March 10 2014, @02:33PM (#14166)

    So no need to vote anymore. It is likely the project needs to move as the new owner will want to make demands (1 digit user ids and such...).

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @02:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @02:43PM (#14172)

    Feel that? That's John Barrabas's pee on our heads, in great gushing torrents.

    Nice going, John. Slashdot cuts its own throat, and now you cut this site's throat. Maybe I just need to go to ArsTechnica.

    But you doubled your $1,000 investment, so you're happy.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @02:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @02:49PM (#14177)

    Great, so now we all just have to hope the new owner never gets any funny ideas about holding the site hostage.

    Maybe it would be good to think about forming some kind of legal entity (a cooperative?) so that no one person would be able to (legally) do that sort of thing.

  • (Score: 1) by Rune of Doom on Monday March 10 2014, @03:05PM

    by Rune of Doom (1392) on Monday March 10 2014, @03:05PM (#14183)

    Wow. I was liking the "pay him AND move to a new domain" suggestion, but if he really just upped and sold the name like that... then wow. Is there any way to pay him for a legally binding relinquishment of all claim to Soylent News or anything derived from it? (Anyone who'd do this after giving a 1 week deadline can't be trusted to not keep coming back for Danegeld.) Either way, guess I'll see y'all where ever things end up.