Steam is censoring some torrent sites in chat

Users of Valve’s Steam video game platform are finding some of the links they mention in chat automatically censored by filtering software, reports TorrentFreak. Specifically, affected websites include several — though not all — popular destinations for pirated torrent content.

Sites whose URLs show up on the receiving end as “[LINK REMOVED]” include The Pirate Bay and Torrentz, according to TorrentFreak testing, but not KickassTorrents. Also affected are links from the file-sharing service 4shared, whose content — like that of any other file transfer service — is known to sometimes consist of pirated material.