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Facebook Cuts Off Pirate Bay Links
narramissic writes "Citing legal reasons, Facebook has ended its brief relationship with The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay added a 'Share on Facebook' button around two weeks ago to its site that allowed its users to post links to small information files on Facebook that are used to download audio, video, etc. via BitTorrent. Facebook is now blocking those 'bookmarklets' as well as any links from The Pirate Bay, said Peter Sunde, of The Pirate Bay. Sunde said he received an e-mail from Facebook justifying the action because of the legal proceedings against Sunde and three others. The men are awaiting return of a verdict on April 17 from a trial that concluded early last month in Stockholm. They are charged with helping to make available material under copyright."
Right. Because every file TPB has is legally able to be there. All the artists, all the producers, all the everyone whose work is now available, are happy for someone else to be giving away the work they created and for which they are not being compensated for.
Just because some of the stuff on TPB might legally be able to be there doesn't justify them blatantly offering items which they know they have no right to be distributing. I'm sure if the owners had some software which they slaved over and other people were now offering for free, they'd be happy as clams to not get paid for their work.
Fire away assholes, my karma can take it.
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Not funny you lame nigger!