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."

Comments

Re:Idiot?

[Vectronic]

"The Pirate Bay"

Yes, but that depends on your definition... legal definition, its someone who partakes in piracy.

But, metaphorically it's just someone who takes shit for themselves, you could be a sand pirate, and travel the world scooping up sand on every beach you landed on, yeah, might be illegal on some of the beaches, at least in large quantities, but for the most part it's not.

I generally think of it as that, just piling a bunch of coins (files) into your little private chest (hard drive)... "The Pirate Bay" is simply a docking point where you start from... others may only consider it by the legal/dictionary definition, but it's capable of both legal and illegal methods, and shouldn't be banned strictly by name alone. Should "Death Valley" be banned, stuff dies there all the time, but stuff is also born too, maybe the name will inspire someone to kill people there, omg think of the children. what about places named "Happy Valley" (quite a few of those here in Canada)... banned for false advertising because it didn't make you happy?

Re:Not Really

[Anonymous Coward]

Facebook would roll over in the face of the Intellectual property industry (as it should - I'm a software developer, and I would be outraged if Facebook allowed this kind of thing to happen). Only the Pirate Bay, behind their protection afforded them by weak Swedish laws is going to avoid backing down. The Pirate Bay would have the snot knocked out of them in any real, civilized country with laws that protect the producer. Instead, Swedish laws protect the parasite.

Re:Not Really

[ciderVisor]

Oh noooooooes. An AC continues to be pissed off. How shall I sleep ?

Re:Not Really

[cliffski]

Showing the true intellectual side of the flimsy "music should be free" debate I see...

Its people like you, who think you are born with an entitlement to take other peoples work for free who 'don't get it' and really piss everyone else (who open their wallets and pay for the entertainment you swipe for nothing) off.