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Re:Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger by chime on Saturday March 24, 2012 @01:09PM (#3749902)
Because now they have taken a role of pro-active censorship/moderation of private communication. Will Hotmail allow such links for long? How about Bing? Can I paste these links in an Excel/Word file on Office365? What about non-free services like MS Lync, Exchange, and Outlook?

Forget the need for deep-packet inspection. If major web services stop users from linking to TPB and other sites, MPAA etc. will have accomplished their goals of restricting legitimate users' activities. Who else is going to follow their lead now?

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Re:Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger by JeremyBanks on Saturday March 24, 2012 @02:33PM (#3750186)
Microsoft has done stuff like this with MSN messenger for as long as I can remember. At least five years. The specific sites that are blocked frequently includes entirely harmless ones.

Between blocking messages "for users' own good" and other technical issues (80% of message I send to certain users are dropped silently), MSNM is by far the least reliable messaging system out there. Nobody should be using that piece of shit in the first place.

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