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Dheeru — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:15:26 -0000

Pirate bay rocks, and i think even facebook has a problem with it, who cares about it.

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Daniel — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:25:27 -0000

Get a program from PB to change your IP every few Hours

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BOB — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:38:04 -0000

O MY GOD ive downloaded so much stuff TPB! about 800 songs 5 movies and 6 complete full seasons of tv shows! wat should i do! i dont want cops bustin' into my house

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BOB — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:34:48 -0000

o my god ive downloaded so much stuff TPB like 800 songs and 2 movies and i dont want cops bustin into my house :( wat should i do not to get caught?

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Carey Miller — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:21:18 -0000

I completely agree that the artists should be paid for their work That is not the issue. The issue is whether the labels and artists should be living in massive mansions or in regular sized homes.

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Richard Allen — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:36:06 -0000

Only if you are WHITE....black people will be able to do it and never be bothered with some stupid silly lawsuit...mark my words. It's an explosive defense.

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I would urge people not to share torrents of Facebook

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dccrowley — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:07:08 -0000

While I am a fervant critic of the music industry's refusal to do business that offers customers value for money, I would urge people not to share torrents of Facebook. This gives the RIAA ammunition to go after you. Don't let pirate bay use you, no matter how valueable you find their service.

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mike ashworth — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:26:54 -0000

This was news? you've been able to share links on facebook for ages. so the actual news is that pirate bay have added a "share on fb" button on their website? wooooo.

need to have software installed to download torrents anway, what about the people who share links to mp3's and other such copyrighted stuff on facebook which dont require any additional software, is that more of a "threat"?

Mike

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Ryan Dinkelman — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:10:38 -0000

Hey Ben! You've been slashdotted! ...which I'm sure you know by now. Did you know that a sister of yours is living next door to me these days!? Crazy, I know! Glad to see you get some exposure, and I hope you are reading your comments! Great tunes, great times, that year in 2001. Glad to see you're doing well!

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Jared O'Toole — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:48:16 -0000

This will definitely bring up some issues. I can't imagine this being allowed to go on for a long time. Whether pressure is put on pirate bay or facebook to block this I'm sure something will happen.

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prowse — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:27:57 -0000

Peer-to-peer (not the same thing as P2P) file sharing/streaming is going on all the time, all throughout the Internet - between HUBS, ISPs, webhosts, DNS servers, college laboratories, OMG! Get over it, DMCA/RIAA need serious overhaul.

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Jeffrey — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:12:48 -0000

You're operating from a fundamentally incorrect (and possibly willfully clueless) assumption here. Links to torrents aren't illegal. It's just as illegal to post a link to a torrent as it is to describe the location of a murder.

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Jeffrey — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:09:15 -0000

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Jeffrey — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:06:55 -0000

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Jeffrey — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:03:31 -0000

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ReTweet — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:24:39 -0000

LOL all I can say is this is awesome. Pirate Bay rocks!

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Richard Allen — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:42:03 -0000

Ray:

It will be interesting for them to Prove they sue people in Gary IN, Harlem, Bed Sty, Far Rockaway, south central, liberty city, how about the 9th ward in New Orleans. I'll bet the answer is no we let "those" people get away with stealing music. We don't want to deal with Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson!!!!

Its also bad for the DJ business because they undercut is legal dj's in price......So Its all about proof, and you can still buy hard drives full of rap hip hop all the remixes on ebay, and of course CL.

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Chris Johnson — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:09:25 -0000

RIAA should re evaluate the trends and for get the past and move onto the new world. This bulling approach has no value within social networking and Pirate Bay should have the ability to promote their service as any other service that provides links on Facebook. The content is not owned by RIAA its owned by the users. This is the new world.

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Alan Ralph — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:24:01 -0000

I am pretty sure the existing Terms Of Service allow them to take down such links. No chickening out required. And their external linking system could probably sniff out torrent sites, even if someone used a URL-shortening service to try and hide it.

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Facebook User — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:19:46 -0000

FB will chicken out and ban/block this as soon as any of the big organizations starts yelling. I big nasty lawsuit is hardly what they're looking for these days.

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Ray Beckerman — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:17:39 -0000

You're wrong about that Richard, many of the defendants have been black.

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BrianMojo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:11:18 -0000

Finally someone speaking some sense. If these links truly are illegal to link to (are they?) then the RIAA or whoever would simply come after the users who post them, considering it's pretty remarkably easy to trace Facebook users back to a real person. I don't see this being much of a problem for Facebook at all.

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Alan Ralph — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:46:54 -0000

I'm wondering how many Facebook users are going to share torrents so openly? Considering your profile shows your real name, and probably some of your location and contact info too, you'd be asking the lawyers to come after you, no?

Also, I'm pretty sure that such links will fall foul of Facebook's existing Terms Of Service too, so Facebook itself is covered in the event they find out about it.

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Ben Parr — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:38:25 -0000

My bad. I gues they're just tempting fate then.