torrent
Facebook blocks Piratebay
Facebook recently started blocking links from http://www.thepiratebay.org stating it was due to the pending legal proceedings that took place recently in Sweden. The Pirate Bay added a “Share on Facebook” button to their torrent file links a few weeks ago and users could share torrent links with friends via their Facebook profiles. While the Pirate Bay does not actually host or contain any copyrighted software, they provide a torrent service in which users can upload a link to share files with each other. Data is broken up into small chunks and comes from multiple torrent “seed” computers and users who are downloading the files are also sharing the parts they download with others thus making it difficult to track where the files are coming from. While piracy has always been an issue that content providers have struggled with, the issue of file sharing showed up around the late nineties. Newsgroups, file sharing services, AOL chat rooms, and now torrent trackers have all participated in allowing internet users to connect with each other and share their information. Whether it be for legal or non-legal purposes. The main story here is that file-sharing and piracy are not going away anytime soon. The big question is how to make it work in favor rather than against you?
Read more at: http://www.itworld.com/legal/66173/expected-facebook-halts-pirate-bay-links