Copyright Law

Pirate Bay Adds ?Share on Facebook? Feature

By soulxtc

BitTorrent tracker site now lets you share tracker links with Facebook friends.

The Pirate Bay has added an cool new feature that allows you to share torrent tracker links with your friends on Facebook.

Now it’s obviously a bit sketchy to begin linking to copyrighted material, but so long as it’s a link to a webpage that then links to a hosted torrent tracker it’s a pretty safe bet that one can’t get into trouble with the law.

The method is pretty simple.

Simply click the “Share on Facebook” button on any of the content pages…

…and it’ll bring up a window to post a link to it on your Facebook profile.
Presto…

According to Peter Sunde, one of The Pirate Bay’s founders, it has yet to hear complaints from either Facebook or the entertainment industry though that is certain to change.

?As far as I know, no rights-holders have complained to us yet,? said Sunde.

As for Facebook, “they monitoring their protal every day - they should have noticed it long ago,” he added.

According to an inquiry from Wired, the site says “we are looking into this and have contacted the developer, but have not taken any specific action.”

Time will tell what happens to the feature, but in the meantime it’s an easy way to share links to popular content with your friends or family on Facebook.

The news follows The Pirate Bay’s recent announcement of a new $6.67p/mo VPN service that promises to anonymize your BitTorrent downloads.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).