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Facebook Cuts Off Pirate Bay Links

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hyperlinks-are-bad-mmm-kay dept.

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."

9 of 137 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What about Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Every file TPB has is a .torrent with no illegal content, yes.

  2. Re:They can do that? by _KiTA_ · · Score: 5, Informative

    But they can't get rid of all the crap quizzes?

    I call shenanigans.

    The crap quizzes bring in advertisement dollars. There's a reason you can't filter those stupid things out.

  3. Re:They haven't ended the relationship... by scientus · · Score: 4, Informative

    (I would provide a link, but TPB is blocked at work...)

    try putting in your host file

    83.140.176.200 thepiratebay.org

    or setting you DNS server setting to 4.2.2.3

    and then going to https://thepiratebay.org/

  4. Re:Draw the line? by DJGrahamJ · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's already gotten around. Just replace the domain name in the URL with 83.140.176.200 or use something like tinyurl.

  5. Re:Sounds fair by Ilgaz · · Score: 3, Informative

    If they have advanced "employee watching" technologies, it will get him into major trouble. In fact, in a real business network, he can't even change DNS or even install anything.

  6. Re:slashdot topics these days by funkatron · · Score: 2, Informative

    I love the way they have swallowed the digg/torrentfreak bullshit of calling it 'file sharing' rather than theft or piracy. What next? is care jacking just 'car sharing'?

    The term filesharing covers sharing of any file, not just slightly dodgy files.

    What a joke. this site is practically an off-shoot of torrentfrek now. Its laughable to read this at the bottom:

    "All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2009 SourceForge, Inc. "

    I thought the /. hippies thought copyright was teh evil?

    Copyright might be teh evil but it is the kind of teh evil that could pay a lot of lawyers at slashdot's expense.

    --
    "Welcome to our world. We are the wasted youth. And we are the future too." Yes, I know these are stupid lyrics.
  7. Re:They haven't ended the relationship... by scientus · · Score: 3, Informative

    its SSL, if you all all noticed the s, that means that almost all sniffing is averted.

  8. Re:Facebook + random courts - decision by xaxa · · Score: 2, Informative

    So Facebook recognizes the courts of Europe?

    There are about 50 countries in Europe.

    27 of them belong to the European Union.

    Facebook seem to have offices in Ireland, the UK, France and Germany. Since they're all EU countries, Facebook should (presumably) recognise EU courts (IANAL).

  9. Re:slashdot topics these days by espamo · · Score: 2, Informative

    indeed. http://punxter.com/pic/Piracy_Up,_Global_Warming_Down