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The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a report I just read in Mashable, Pirate Bay is coming to Facebook. Writer Ben Parr says that The Pirate Bay site now includes links under torrents to 'Share on Facebook.' Once posted to a profile, the Facebook member's friends can click the link on Facebook to begin the download right away, provided he or she already has a torrenting client installed. I just hope people do not use this feature to download copyrighted materials which are not authorized to be downloaded, or at least not materials copyrighted to litigation-happy RIAA Big 4 record labels. No doubt, if their song files were downloaded through this method, the record companies would sit back for awhile, derive profit from the promotional excitement generated for their dying industry, and then — armed with Facebook's data — sue the pants off all the hapless Facebook users who fell for it."
Unfortunately not every analogy works quite that way. After all, if I leave a loaded gun in the street, and someone is killed as a result, I am indeed partially responsible.
I wouldn't put the posting of torrents as far into the 'dark' territory as that example, but probably not as far into the 'light' category as your bank address scenario either. There are shades of grey here.