nsane.forums Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 A few years ago, when community toolbars started to pop up at several torrent sites and elsewhere on the Internet, we decided to create a TorrentFreak toolbar featuring our RSS feed. The toolbar was never promoted in public, because it was just as useless as most toolbars, and, up until today, it had just one install.In fact, we totally forgot that it still existed until Conduit sent us an email yesterday, which informed us that our Publisher Agreement had been terminated for using inappropriate words. Apparently Conduit has decided that the ‘torrent’ in TorrentFreak is a direct violation of their terms and conditions.“It has recently come to our attention that the name and the content of the community toolbar that you publish contains materials (such as marks, signs, images, or texts) that are not allowed in the Conduit platform, and specifically: Torrent, Emule and P2P,” Conduit wrote TorrentFreak in an email.The company further stated that using such words is considered as a violation of the terms and conditions of the publisher agreement, and that our long-standing and fruitful relationship would be terminated immediately.Just out of curiosity and to find out what terms or conditions we could possibly have violated, we skimmed through the agreement, but to no avail. There is no mention of a list of forbidden words mentioned in the Publisher Agreement.Not every ‘torrent’ toolbar is considered evil though. The popular Torrent Search Bar and Torrent Toolbar, that both use Conduit, still seem to be working. Similarly, Mininova told TorrentFreak that they haven’t been contacted by Conduit either.Of course we don’t mind that Conduit pulled the plug on our toolbar, but the reason for the termination is just so ridiculous, we simply had to bring it up. We can only hope that other companies will refrain from using such arbitrary ban lists.Conduit has been contacted for a comment on their radical censorship policy, but thus far we haven’t heard back from the company.Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 30, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 30, 2009 They are insane. Forget Mininova and TorrentFreak, even Demonoid's toolbar is by Conduit. -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 clearly conduit lied and therefore is liable civil in a court of law. sue the shit our of them jsut for the heck of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 There should be a standardized notice of 'B*LL SH*T' for stuff like this...Like when you receive their email/letter you can just hit a button that says 'B*LL SH*T' and then the guys who sent you the message get an email explaining them in easy wordings what kind of idiots they are(yes, you read that right, there's different kinds) and how they should try to fix their (obviously very annoying) disorder. They should also be requested to FIRE their whole staff and lead their company into bankruptcy as soon as possible, to get done with things that are bound to happen anyway as fast as possible.If anyone wonders that this odd looking word 'B*LL SH*T' stands for then they should have a look at this page explaining the various(two) meanings of this word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Who cares about toolbars? They can shove it up their @$$ ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 30, 2009 Administrator Share Posted December 30, 2009 @Biz: I do care. So far, for torrent site's toolbars are concerned, I've used 3 of them, mininova's, TPB's and Demonoid's, and guess what? They all are powered by Conduit. And I do like/use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 @DKT27:Toolbars for me are unnecessary piece of garbage.I don't need any 3rd party toolbar in my system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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