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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."
"I just hope people do not use this feature to download copyrighted materials which are not authorized to be downloaded, or "
You one stupid mofo, nofo!
Oh, right, linux download. haha, you stupidier than I thought.
Are you fucking joking or is this the best you can come up with in time for first post?
You are wrong.
You are full of shit.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
You have been modded up because slashdot moderators are wrong, full of shit, and have no idea what they are talking about.
Whenever you download a torrent, you must simultaneously upload it. This is required for .torrents to work.
That upload of copyrighted material is the fucking crime.
You fucking moron.
Your scheme of claiming that you were downloading materials for archival purposes or some other nonsense is total fucking bullshit. It is bound to fail, just like you.
I have an excuse ready to get out of any legal threats.
And no, I'm not posting it here.
"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?
You use the word "copyright" but you obviously don't realize that the first half of the word is actually "copy".
If you left a box of CDs out with a note that said, "please take a copy of a CD in the box (**copies** of which I am not legally allowed to **distribute**) but before you leave, please insert a blank CD into the burner, and use the PC to burn another copy for the box, kthxbai"
Now THAT is one of the best metaphors for using BitTorrent to illegally **distribute** **copies** of copyrighted materials. No, it is not illegal to make copies of copyrighted materials for yourself. No, not all copyrighted materials are illegal to distribute. But yes, it is illegal to distribute copies of copyrighted materials for which you have no distribution rights. You guys think we "don't get it", or that there's some huge light bulb in the sky that we don't see.
People who illegally distribute copies of materials for which they do not have distribution rights are criminals. Is that clear enough for you? Some people believe it is not theft because the original is unaffected and convinced themselves that they have not committed a crime. You know what? forget it, you fuckin' people really continue to piss me off.
You argue as if legality is a matter of opinion. Clearly, copying is a violation of copyright, hence the word "copyright." Whether you have the means to or not is besides the point.
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.
go fuck yourself you pathetic little thief
Oh noooooooes. An AC continues to be pissed off. How shall I sleep ?
Squirrel!
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.
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