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- jimmyp3016, on 04/08/2009, -3/+233just use tinyurls instead
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -1/+177Bigger is better, right?
http://www.hugeurl.com/ - Rapheal99, on 04/08/2009, -30/+181***** YOU FACEBOOK.
there goes my account. - LedZepAddict, on 04/08/2009, -8/+150Wow, so Facebook now cuts out things other users find offensive huh? Why not block your own annoying ads then? I find them incredibly offensive and annoying.
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -4/+121There goes your account. Still in their servers.
- supermanly, on 04/08/2009, -4/+84http://www.hugeurl.com/?YzcwNmVkNmRkMmQ3MDAzMzJiMT ...
- Rivetgeek, on 04/08/2009, -0/+79Please tell me you arent one of those ***** that enters whole urls into google...
- sandeepg, on 04/08/2009, -10/+77Facebook is really starting to annoy me as of late. A little off-topic, but during the whole 'We own everything you put on facebook forever...' Terms and Conditions change, Zuckerburg responded in the Facebook blog by saying "Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more open and transparent".
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Wtf?
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=56566967130 - inactive, on 04/08/2009, -16/+76***** YOU FACEBOOK! HOW DARE YOU BLOCK THE PIRATEBAY!!!
What's that? You can just access TPB from Google? Oh, carry on then Facebook. - smedrick, on 04/08/2009, -0/+50Who goes to Facebook for TPB links?
- kd420, on 04/08/2009, -12/+58Summary: Censorship, plain and simple. Good thing I use Facebook at a bare minimum anyways, it has gone downhill since I joined. But I'm sure nothing bad has ever happened when a social media site tried to stop people from sharing a certain string of text. /s
- blapierre, on 04/08/2009, -1/+45Like: http://tinyurl.com/tinydigg1
? - texic, on 04/08/2009, -0/+44Or you can just access TPB from TPB.
- Tddupre, on 04/08/2009, -18/+59Facebook is running itself into the ground
- ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -11/+51lol leave it to Digg to overreact to something that 90% of the non-nerd world won't care about. Never in my 3 years of using Facebook pretty much every day have I seen anyone attempt to post a Pirate Bay link, nobody is going to close their accounts, what a joke :P
- ichbinladen, on 04/08/2009, -7/+46thepiratebay>facebook
- blapierre, on 04/08/2009, -3/+39@defiant001
Thank you Captain Obvious. - mu0p, on 04/08/2009, -6/+42First it becomes the social network of choice for my mother and her friends, then the ridiculous ui changes, then blocking links from certain websites? Facebook is the looking like the AOL of the early 90's.
- macmcraeart, on 04/08/2009, -6/+39HOLY *****! I am outraged. NO WAIT - I don't use facebook. I don't give a *****.
- Fhwqhgads, on 04/08/2009, -2/+30lol nice
- ZippyV, on 04/08/2009, -0/+27InfiniteDiggBar
- bodger, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2509-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Oh wait... - pradaaddict, on 04/08/2009, -11/+35You have to understand it's a liability issue for them. Some lawyer probably came to them and said "You could be sued by the RIAA/MPAA for people linking to .torrent files just like a BitTorrent tracker" I don't hold this against them at all.
- jparkinson, on 04/08/2009, -2/+26is it just me, or does posting torrent links on a social network that has a ***** load of info about you sound like a bad idea to anyone else?
- danwallace, on 04/08/2009, -6/+29No they aren't. Most people don't care about this sort of thing.
- DaviDTC, on 04/08/2009, -5/+27You make it sound like you only signed up for Facebook cause of the pirate bay feature. I'm sure you have had your account for a couple years and you wont do crap. You probably didn't even have this feature. Right after you submitted that you probably went and poked a couple people.
- CoD4, on 04/08/2009, -0/+21After a while it becomes a part of your retina
- scriptcoder, on 04/08/2009, -12/+33The comments above are ridiculous.
So Facebook blocks links to pirated movies, software and music. Well duh. They're trying to protect themselves.
And before anyone says that there is a lot of legal content on thePirateBay: there is, I agree. However in that case it is more helpful to link to the authors website then directly to the download link. For example, "www.ubuntu.com" instead of "http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4476718/ubuntu-8.1 ... - hawkspur, on 04/08/2009, -1/+21Adblock and flashblock!
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -1/+21but I don't want to be goatse'd ....again
- crombat, on 04/08/2009, -1/+21Actually, after their recent TOS debacle, facebook put up a link for true deletion.
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form ...
I originally deactivated my account in late 2007 after Beacon, but I recently reactivated it just to delete it. - matt646, on 04/08/2009, -0/+20# You cannot digg a comment twice.
:( - P5ycHo, on 04/08/2009, -13/+31game over fb
- dawpa2000, on 04/08/2009, -0/+18Infinite loop detected.
- DeathMarcher, on 04/08/2009, -0/+16Both my Father and my Father-in-law do that.. I can't seem to convince them they're doing it wrong.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 04/08/2009, -0/+14I think my Firefox is broken. It only stopped after 10. *pouts*
- TheSkunkMonkey, on 04/08/2009, -5/+19MySpace, Facebook, etc. are all just fads that will fade in time just like the luster on any shiny new bauble.
These sites are just the Web 2.0 equivalents of old classics like GeoCities. Yes GC is still around, but nearly as hot or relevant as it used to be and soon MySpace/Facebook and their ilk will join them in relative obscurity. - musters, on 04/08/2009, -8/+22Boycott Facebook!!!
(I'm sick of it anyway, so I've been looking for an excuse for a boycott) - AsSubtleAsABrik, on 04/08/2009, -7/+21In related news facebook is searching the internet high and low for its balls.
- koenigje, on 04/08/2009, -1/+14Yes, Facebook was a lot better before you got there.......thanks :(
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -0/+13http://tinyurl.com/dmugl3 which is a hugeurl of a tinyurl of the hugeurl submitted by supermanly above.
- Mahoney07, on 04/08/2009, -16/+27Facebook blocks links to illegal downloads? WHAT?....
Who gives a *****? - Radan, on 04/08/2009, -2/+13I can't really tell if you are being sarcastic or not, but seriously, can anyone really blame Facebook for doing this? Using Facebook as a torrenting site is very bad publicity for them, and the question whether sites like Piratebay are legal or not is still rather hot which is something that the guys at Facebook doesn't want to face incase something goes wrong.
No matter what one thinks about pirating, if I called the shots at Facebook, I would have done the same. - maexus, on 04/08/2009, -0/+10It's easy to program around this, especially with tinyurl, which has an api to get the redirect url of a tiny url.
- Edfrommars, on 04/08/2009, -9/+19It doesn't matter. They have a user responsibility clause in their TOS. If they get any legal threats all they have to do is refer them to the user that posted the link or, at most, shut down the account of that user.
Facebook is going down the crapper. - Games4Life, on 04/08/2009, -2/+11WTF is this *****?
- raviu90, on 04/08/2009, -0/+9who the hell posts Piratebay links on facebook anyways?
- novalux, on 04/09/2009, -1/+10Every time I see an ad for FreeCreditReport I give it the thumbs down and mark it as "Misleading"
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -2/+11Anyone who can't manage to find a torrent themselves is an idiot.
- pradaaddict, on 04/08/2009, -1/+10Sure it matters. If they let users post anything they wanted and think that that clause in the TOS covers their ass they would be woefully wrong. What if it was CP that people were posting links to? I think the FBI might be upset by that and would indict FB for distribution if they did not act in good faith and removed or blocked illegal content.
This has been argued before and the content owners won. If a Tracker does not in good faith remove copyright violations that it's users are engaging in from their website they are liable to be sued. -
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