Microsoft Live Messenger blocked all links from Pirate Bay

The software giant from Redmond, Microsoft, has blocked all links from Pirate Bay site of the service delivered via Windows Live Messenger instant message. The Pirate Bay is known as the largest providers of Torrent files. Torrent itself is a method of file sharing in peer-to-peer (P2P) with the help of software such as BitTorrent, uTorrent or Azureus.

The Pirate Bay is the most popular site for people who want to share their files illegally. Many ISPs (Internet Service Provider) in the world is trying to prevent its consumer to access this site. Microsoft  now do the same thing, blocking all links from Pirate Bay.

 

When someone sends you links from Pirate Bay site via Microsoft Live Messenger, it will appear a message : The link you tried to send was blocked Because it was reported as unsafe.

As quoted by VentureBeat, the same thing will happen if the user is using Microsoft Live Messenger service via other applications like Pidgin, Adium or Digsby. Meanwhile, Torrents also can spread harmful viruses that can infect computers that running torrent. Reportedly, Microsoft will begin to censor certain websites on single service without advance warning in services such as email or Microsoft's search engine, Bing

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