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Pirates of the Amazon is a add-on for the Firefox Web browser. It alerts users browsing the selection of Amazon.com to see if any media is available as a BitTorrent download on the popular Pirate Bay tracker. If a message reading "Download for Free" pops up on any page featuring a film, music album, video game or publication, a user can automatically begin downloading the item for free. Most of these free downloads violate copyright law, and are therefore illegal.
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Fast Facts
- Tagline is a quote from Lawrence Lessig: "How can you compete with free? You cant!"
- Currently in beta
- Must already have a BitTorrent client installed for the add-on to work
- According to official site, plug-in is meant as an "artistic project"Official Site: Pirates of the Amazon Firefox Add-On
- A similar add-on provides the same service, but for IMDb rather than AmazonIMDb popular torrent search
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Pirate Bay Background
The Pirate bay launched in Sweden on November 21, 2003, with the aim of helping anonymous users access digital copies of films, TV shows, music, software and documents for free. Swedish authorities have identified the site's founders as Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom, and have charged them each with facilitating copyright infringement.International Herald Tribune: Swedes charge 4 in case involving copyright infringement of music and films (January 31, 2008) According to Alexa, Pirate Bay is the 120th most popular site on the Internet.Alexa: ThePirateBay.org -
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Don't shop Central Chef (Vendor of Amazon.com). They send damaged products, will not respond, and tell lies to the BBB (pirates)
@HuskyRun | July 09, 2009 03:22 PM -
Buy Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy DVD on amazon for only £11.98!!! FREE DELIVERY! http://bit.ly/j3OU6
@brother_sisters | July 09, 2009 01:39 PM -
Buy Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy DVD on amazon for only £11.98!!! FREE DELIVERY! http://bit.ly/j3OU6
@brother_sisters | July 09, 2009 09:09 AM -
Buy Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy DVD on amazon for only £11.98!!! FREE DELIVERY! http://bit.ly/j3OU6
@brother_sisters | July 08, 2009 05:53 PM -
@thereminwar Pirates Of The River Rother. Gets five stars on amazon, almost tempted to buy it
@jothekendall | July 03, 2009 11:16 PM
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