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Facebook blocks Pirate Bay torrents

article published on 9 April, 2009

Just about a week after the notorious Pirate Bay tracker unveiled a new feature that let's Facebook users share torrents on their profiles, Facebook has responded by blocking users from doing so. While this latest change doesn't seem to have gone down particularly well with some Facebook users (not unusual), it will keep them out the of the firing line of media companies fighting BitTorrent-driven ... [ read the full article ]

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Morreale

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9. April 2009 @ 17:34

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As if Facebook wasn't lame enough...

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igolg

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9. April 2009 @ 22:33

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spam edited by ddp?

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domie

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10. April 2009 @ 04:53

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Never used facebook so don't know much about it. The Pirate Bay is entitled to do whatever they like on their own sites and servers seeing as they pay for them but when they introduce something that allows users of other sites to implement pirate bay / torrent links on a site that has no connection with TPB then they have really overstepped the mark.
They may be happy defending themselves against the lawsuit and consider they have a good case against the charges of copyright infringement etc but they have absolutely no right to interfere with other sites affairs or how their sites are organised and encourage the other sites users to introduce copyright infringing material ( possibly ) . In fact it seems very much like the type of action that TPB itself wouyld complain about - a big fish muscling in and implanting itself on other people's webspace/rights without any notice or authority.

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vyze

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10. April 2009 @ 18:11

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Originally posted by domie:
...when they [Pirate Bay] introduce something that allows users of other sites to implement pirate bay / torrent links on a site that has no connection with TPB then they have really overstepped the mark.

How would posting torrent links differ to any other link?
One can post links to websites that contain material that document to making bombs, illicit and illegal adult material, recipies for making controlled substances such as nacortics, directions on how to eat children or any other illegal or not socially accepted material and that isn't the fault of the people that host the website (unless if they put the Share>Facebook on there). After Facebook founder failed to purchase Twitter he redesigned, which most people hate, the site to be more Twitter-esque. Pirate bay didn't say USE ALL THE FACEBOOK BANDWIDTH TO ILLEGALLY PIRATE MEDIA

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hermes_vb

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17. April 2009 @ 15:34

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Let's create a new type of social network called PirateBook. It would be like a canteen where pirates hang out and share share stories...LOL

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