File sharing web site buying a Russian town???

You can call it a sort of Robin Hood situation. One of the most popular file-sharing sites is in apparent negotiations to name a rural Russian town in Siberia after its website, with money generated from its advertising.

Torrentreactor.net wrote on its Web site that it has bought the rights to rename the city of Gar, which is about 500 miles north of Kazakhstan's border in eastern Russian, for about US$148,000.

Torrentreactor runs a search engine for torrent files, or bits of information that enable the download of digital content using the BitTorrent protocol in applications such as uTorrent. The site generates income through advertising, which features torrents for some of the latest movies, TV programs and software. More...

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