HTTP:: Facebook and LimeWire Disagree On File Sharing
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Finally, someone in Facebook has read their Terms of Service and made up their mind about how they should feel about file-sharing services implementing features for their website. After going back and forward in recent days, Facebook announced LimeWire representatives that they would block LimeWire's new feature “Share on Facebook†if they don't do it first. Reacting to this message, LimeWire decided to disable for the moment the above mentioned feature so it would remain on good terms with Facebook.On good terms is what LimeWire will not be with its users who were absolutely ecstatic about the feature, many praising its usefulness and innovation. What many of them don't know is the fact that LimeWire was not the first service involved in file-sharing to get banned from Facebook. The Pirate Bay, as always, did it first.Pirate Bay had its quarrels with Facebook admins back in April 2009, when a similar feature, also called “Share on Facebook,†was banned from the soc!
ial network. Facebook representatives stated that “Facebook respects copyrights and our Terms of Service prohibits placement of ‘Share on Facebook’ links on sites that contain any content that is infringing.†What Facebook doesn't know now is that after its resurgence a few days ago, Pirate Bay...
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