Twitter Blocks Kickass.to Links, Says They’re Unsafe

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[url="/images/kickass.jpg"][img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/kickass.jpg[/img][/url]With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents is one of the [url="http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-popular-torrent-sites-2014-140104/"]most used[/url] torrent sites, trailing only behind The Pirate Bay.

The site indexes millions of torrents, some of which are then shared through Facebook, Twitter and other social media. For example, author Alex Sayf Cummings posted a link to a torrent of his book Music Piracy And The Remaking Of American Copyright [url="https://twitter.com/akbarjenkins/status/436112215175733248"]in a tweet[/url] recently.

Cummings was obviously inviting people to grab a free copy from the site, but Twitter is not making that easy. Those who click on the link in question are presented with an ominous warning.

“The site you were trying to visit may be unsafe! This link has been flagged as potentially harmful.”

In the grey-on-black fine print in the bottom right corner, Twitter points out that people can proceed to the site at their own risk, but not everybody may be that gutsy.

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