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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."

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  1. And the funny thing is... by dancingmad · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  2. As if they didn't know by Len · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sunde said he received an e-mail from Facebook justifying the action because of the legal proceedings against Sunde and three others.

    The trial and the circus surrounding it was big news worldwide, but Zuckerberg & co. didn't notice? Really?

  3. Re:They can do that? by thedonger · · Score: 5, Interesting
    • mySpace = profitable
    • facebook = wants to be profitable
    • therefore, facebook becomes mySpace-like

    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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  4. Re:They can do that? by Malevolyn · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This works in more than one way:
    • Twitter = popular and trendy.
    • Facebook = wants to be more popular and trendy (and wants the liveblogging market).
    • Therefore, Facebook's new homepage is Twitter.
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  5. Re:They haven't ended the relationship... by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  6. Shitface-Book by flibuste · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  7. Re:They haven't ended the relationship... by terbo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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