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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."
It's funny, because I am more trusting (I originally wrote trust, but there are no websites I trust implicitly) of the Pirate Bay not to screw around with my computer or be dicks, while I don't trust Facebook at all with my photos or private information.
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The trial and the circus surrounding it was big news worldwide, but Zuckerberg & co. didn't notice? Really?
It is already happening. Look at how much more crap on which there is to click compared with prior to the most recent update.
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Come on, get with the party line - it's not about copyright infringement, it's about openness and sharing. Sure, it's openly sharing copyrighted works, but that's not the important part.
No. TPB merely links to people blatantly making such content available without any compensation to the original artists, provides a neatly-sorted directory of same, encourages people to take said content without compensating the original copyright owners, directs people to tools by which they can do this, and doesn't provide any content of their own, ever. This is so clearly obviously horribly significantly different from just handing you the information that it makes it perfectly legal and moral.
Owing to a loophole in a law not designed for the internet age, we geeks will fight tooth and nail to assert that getting movies, music, and video games for free are a GOD-GIVEN RIGHT OF EVERY HUMAN BEING ON EARTH (if not an outright responsibility), and besides somebody sometimes uploads something legal already offered on other trackers so the entire site is legal and you can't do anything about it blah blah Betamax international law WHAT I'M DOING IS PERFECTLY LEGAL DON'T TAKE MY FREE MOVIES FROM ME DOWN WITH THE MAN!!!!!!!!
Facebook has a serious censorship problem:
They happily keep violent/nazi/negationists sites up and running, but will censor a breast-feeding site or a site from people who have YET to be proven guilty of any wrongdoing (let's remind everyone that being on trial doesn't make you guilty).
Seriously, people using Facebook should consider why they're doing this. It's funny to see how M$ gets easily bashed each time they move a finger, but Facebook gets away with pretty much everything.
Pretty interesting.
I just helped a friend post his discography to demonoid-
I wonder if they would block links from them also?
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