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Pirate Bay Shares Torrent Love via Facebook

by Jay G on March 30, 2009

piratebay-facebookI’m sure that there’s going to be another uproar about Pirate Bay because soon there’ll be links coming from your Torrenting buddies asking if you want to also download the latest film or album for free direct from their Facebook profile.

The Pirate Bay site now has a link under torrents to “Share on Facebook” – so, once posted to your profile, your Facebook friends can click the link on Facebook to begin the download right away, provided they already have a torrenting client such as U-Torrent installed.

Facebook is the world’s largest social networking site with over 150 million people signed up already.

This makes it an ideal place to share content but the thing is many of the files on TPB are illegal to download which makes those folks that hold the copyright a tad miffed to say the least.

Keeping in mind the latest court happenings involving TBP I can already imagine the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) getting their cases ready which will probably put Facebook right in the middle of this age old argument.

Do you think that The Pirate Bay and others like them are hurting the music and film industries or is it a positive thing as more people are getting to see their products and recommending them to friends?

Discuss :)

Story via Mashable

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Mozilla Files To Legalise iPhone Jailbreaking

by Jay Garrett on February 20, 2009

mozilla-foundationFirefox makers, Mozilla, have filed papers to the US Copyright Office in a move that sees them going head to head with Apple over the legally murkey process of iPhone unlocking.

Mozilla is backing a proposal by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to make an exemption to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow a legal iPhone unlock.

They are putting forward that it would promote “open access” to the internet – and allow folk to download Firefox Mobile as a side-effect ;)

Skype are also behind this as they’d love the chance to get their VoIP over 3G as well as Wi-Fi.

We all know that Apple isn’t exactly free with their platform and are obviously loving the revenue being brought in from their App Store.

I think with names like Mozilla and Skype hasseling the US government for a legal iPhone unlock it could get messy with lots of scratching and hair-pulling.

Kinda like a Friday-night in Wombwell.

I’ll keep you people up-to-date :)

 
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Pirate Bay in Court – Facing £1.8 Million Fine and Jail

February 16, 2009 Click to read more →

Pirate Bay co-founders, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde (both pictured), Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström, a donor to the site, face up to two years in prison if convicted in the most high-profile anti-piracy case in recent years.
They’re pleading that their activities are legal under Swedish copyright laws, because Pirate Bay does not host copyrighted [...]

Pirate Bay could be Scuppered!

January 31, 2008 Click to read more →

The founders of The Pirate Bay, one of the best directories for BitTorrents, have been broadsided by charges of conspiracy to break copyright law in their homeland, Sweden.
Before now they’ve managed to dodge anything like this as they don’t actually hold any dodgy stuff on their server – instead they just act as a go-between.
The 4 are having their collars [...]

Burn Baby Burn – Legally

January 9, 2008 Click to read more →

If amendments go ahead you will no longer be flaunting the law each time you transfer your choonz from computer to a digital player or copy a CD for your own use.
Most of us have been breaking the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 each time we’ve copied tracks from CDs to our PC or digital player, or [...]