Month: September 2019

Similar to other sites that deal with user-generated content, Facebook has to battle against a constant stream of copyright-infringing material.

To address this, Facebook has rolled out several anti-piracy initiatives in recent years. The company has a “Rights Manager” tool, for example, that automatically detects infringing material on the platform.

In addition, it seems the company is also taking proactive measures. This week we were contacted by the operator of LimeTorrents.info, one of the most used torrent sites, who noticed that sharing links to his site is no longer permitted on the social media network.

People who want to use Facebook to post a link to the torrent site will see the following error message instead; “You can’t share this link. Your post couldn’t be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards.”

As it turns out, LimeTorrents is not the only site that’s affected by this policy. We checked several others and found out that Facebook also blocks links that point to YTS.lt, Torrentdownloads.me and Zooqle.com. This measure applies to all URLs from these sites, including their homepages.

Facebook’s blocking notification doesn’t provide a specific reason for the blockage. We’ve reached out to the company for a comment on the blocking measures, but the company has yet to reply.

When we read through the company’s ‘community standards,’ however, we see that copyright infringement is a potential trigger.

The four sites that are blocked may just be the tip of the iceberg. At the same time, it’s also worth noting that other major pirate sites don’t get the same treatment. Whatever Facebook’s policy is, there’s no site-wide ban on all piracy sites, yet.

While the current blocking efforts are new to us, as well as the site operator we’ve spoken to, it’s not clear when they were implemented. A search for the error message that pops up suggests that it only started to appear recently.

That doesn’t mean that Facebook has never blocked pirate sites in the past. Ten years ago the company already prevented users from posting links to The Pirate Bay, after the torrent site refused to disable its ‘share’ function voluntarily.

“Given the controversy surrounding The Pirate Bay and the pending lawsuit against them, we’ve reached out to The Pirate Bay and asked them to remove the ‘Share on Facebook’ links from their site. The Pirate Bay has not responded and so we have blocked their torrents from being shared on Facebook,” the company told us at the time.

Interestingly, in the years that followed, The Pirate Bay was unbanned again and Facebook users can freely share links to the site today.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.

Similar to other sites that deal with user-generated content, Facebook has to battle against a constant stream of copyright-infringing material.

To address this, Facebook has rolled out several anti-piracy initiatives in recent years. The company has a “Rights Manager” tool, for example, that automatically detects infringing material on the platform.

In addition, it seems the company is also taking proactive measures. This week we were contacted by the operator of LimeTorrents.info, one of the most used torrent sites, who noticed that sharing links to his site is no longer permitted on the social media network.

People who want to use Facebook to post a link to the torrent site will see the following error message instead; “You can’t share this link. Your post couldn’t be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards.”

As it turns out, LimeTorrents is not the only site that’s affected by this policy. We checked several others and found out that Facebook also blocks links that point to YTS.lt, Torrentdownloads.me and Zooqle.com. This measure applies to all URLs from these sites, including their homepages.

Facebook’s blocking notification doesn’t provide a specific reason for the blockage. We’ve reached out to the company for a comment on the blocking measures, but the company has yet to reply.

When we read through the company’s ‘community standards,’ however, we see that copyright infringement is a potential trigger.

The four sites that are blocked may just be the tip of the iceberg. At the same time, it’s also worth noting that other major pirate sites don’t get the same treatment. Whatever Facebook’s policy is, there’s no site-wide ban on all piracy sites, yet.

While the current blocking efforts are new to us, as well as the site operator we’ve spoken to, it’s not clear when they were implemented. A search for the error message that pops up suggests that it only started to appear recently.

That doesn’t mean that Facebook has never blocked pirate sites in the past. Ten years ago the company already prevented users from posting links to The Pirate Bay, after the torrent site refused to disable its ‘share’ function voluntarily.

“Given the controversy surrounding The Pirate Bay and the pending lawsuit against them, we’ve reached out to The Pirate Bay and asked them to remove the ‘Share on Facebook’ links from their site. The Pirate Bay has not responded and so we have blocked their torrents from being shared on Facebook,” the company told us at the time.

Interestingly, in the years that followed, The Pirate Bay was unbanned again and Facebook users can freely share links to the site today.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.

Amazon hat auf der Ifa 2019 erste Smart-TVs und eine Soundbar mit Fire TV Edition für den deutschen Markt vorgestellt. Mit dabei ist auch ein erster Smart-TV mit Sprachsteuerung auf Zuruf. Smart-TVs mit Fire TV Edition kommen auch von Media Markt und Saturn. (Ifa 2019, OLED)

Amazon bringt den Fire TV Cube nach langer Verzögerung nach Deutschland. Das auf der Ifa vorgestellte Gerät ist eine Mischung aus Fire TV Stick und Echo-Lautsprecher. Videostreamingdienste sollen sich damit gut mit der Stimme steuern lassen. (Ifa 2019, Amazon)

The first 5G-ready smartphones are already here. But so far they’ve all relied on multi-chip solutions: a mobile processor to power most smartphone functions, and a separate 5G modem. Now chip makers are starting to make the first smartphone processors with built-in 5G capabilities. Huawei’s Kirin 990 chip is expected to have integrated 5G support. […]

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Nordrhein-Westfalen sieht Fortschritte im Mobilfunk-Ausbau. Doch von den rund 280 neuen LTE-Standorten hat die Telekom 250 errichtet. (Long Term Evolution, Handy)

Amazon is launching a bunch of new and updated Fire TV products this fall, led by a next-gen Fire TV Cube media streamer with support for hands-free Alexa. Fun fact: the original Fire TV Cube may have sold for more than twice the price of an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K, but it actually had […]

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Weil Google auf Youtube auch die Daten von Kindern gesammelt und für personenbezogene Werbung genutzt hat, zahlt Google eine Rekordstrafe - die allerdings im Verhältnis zum Gewinn sehr gering ausfällt. (Youtube, Google)

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