Controversy over new Pirate Bay Facebook feature
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversThe Pirate Bay has added a small, but significant feature to their website which will almost certainly prove to be controversial.
The new feature is a link provided on each torrent page which allows users to post the link to the particular torrent onto their Facebook profile. Friends can then begin to download the particular torrent straight from their Facebook page, assuming a torrent client is installed.
Many websites allow their users to do the very same thing – even Neowin allows its users to submit news articles to Facebook; however the controversy lies in just what users will be sharing, with the use of this. A convenient way of sharing files even faster for users; a new threat for anti-piracy organisations – and Facebook could be the battleground for it all. Although Facebook's terms and conditions state that no copyrighted material may be shared through the use of Facebook, it's not clear how they would enforce this if the new feature from The Pirate Bay took off.
According to the source of this article, Mashable, the IFPI have responded negatively to the move, stating that sharing links to copyrighted files, in any form, is illegal. Facebook have yet to comment on the new feature.
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Comments(3)
ya this isn't going to last very long. who in there right mind would use it in the first
place lol.
why would it ever be considered? u cant tell too many ppl about torrents and start
posting them on facebook. now someones gonna try to get rid of torrents all together.
i downloaded a lot of "legal" files using p2p.
maybe user will share that :)
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