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The Pirate Bay added a "Share on Facebook" button around two weeks ago to its site that allowed its users to post links to small information files, called torrents, on Facebook. The torrents are used to download audio, video and other content via the BitTorrent P-to-P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing network.

Facebook is now blocking those so-called "bookmarklets" as well as any links from The Pirate Bay, said Peter Sunde, of The Pirate Bay. The development was first reported by the file-sharing blog TorrentFreak.

Sunde said he received an e-mail from Facebook justifying the action because of the legal proceedings against The Pirate Bay.