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Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger

Posted by Unknown on from the references-replaced-with-fnord dept.

RemyBR writes with an excerpt from an article at El Reg: "Microsoft has confirmed that users of its instant messaging app will not be able to send each other links to popular torrent site The Pirate Bay, citing malware fears. 'We block instant messages if they contain malicious or spam URLs based on intelligence algorithms, third-party sources, and/or user complaints. Pirate Bay URLs were flagged by one or more of these and were consequently blocked,' Redmond told The Register in an emailed statement."

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  1. Re:evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft has a duty to encrypt these messages so that no one else can read them. No one includes Microsoft.

    lol.. what duty? they are a private company. they can do whatever they want.

    Stay the fuck out of my personal correspondence. If you can't do that, there should be a law saying you are spying and should be in jail.

    so stop using microsofts servers and they'll stop bothering you. use some other service. or setup your own jabber or irc server. Who exactly are you to tell them what to do with the data that you send to their servers?

    man.. you entitled fucks are really annoying. why dont you kill yourself?