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.
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