Unofficial Merger: The Pirate Bay and Facebook

TorrentFreak has a fascinating blog post up today about a new feature implemented by The Pirate Bay that allows Facebook users to list their favorite torrents on their profiles.

The 'Share on Facebook' link has been added to all torrent details pages and makes it so that there is absolutely no visit to The Pirate Bay site necessary -- users just click on their friends' profiles and the torrent will automatically begin to download if a torrent client is installed.

Obviously, the industry officials who have commented are pissed but it's curious that Facebook declined to comment on the issue. They surely have bigger fish to fry but I do wonder if this story will get any place in the long term. As a sort of "online globalization", the integration of websites will be an interesting phenonmenon to watch especially in terms of piracy.

The Pirate Bay On Trial (continued again)

Yesterday, TorrentFreak took their stab at summing up the ongoing Pirate Bay trial, taking us on the two and a half week journey, from the second day dropping of half of the charges, to the King Kong defense.

Certainly, these folks are biased and claim a huge media victory for The Pirate Bay throughout the trial, but if you're new to this whole case, TorrentFreak provides what is probably the best summary I have seen thus far. It'll be over a month until we hear the verdict, so use this time to catch up! Innocent or guilty? Hit the comments.