The Pirate Bay blockade in Sweden coming soon? Swedish Police want to remove TPB from internet (Photo : Facebook/TPB)

The users of Steam will not be able to share The Pirate Bay links with other users as Steam is censoring any links related to piracy including TPB. The discussions are not including any links or comments related to The Pirate Bay or any other file-sharing websites.



Users on Steam chat talk about the games and other stuff, however, Steam doesn't appreciate that its users are using the chat platform to share The Pirate Bay links. Steam has been censoring the messages related to Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak reported.




Apart from The Pirate Bay, Steam is removing messages with Torrentz links as wells as 4shared, the publication noted in its report.



Steam has not yet made any public announcement about censoring the messages and removing The Pirate Bay links from the chat. It is likely that Steam is removing the links to check piracy on the chat.



Meanwhile, in other piracy news, the recent Panama Papers controversy has information about file-sharing websites. Mossack Fonseca's, the firm connected to Panama Papers, documents leaked and it was used a tool for privacy.



Two ex-employees of Megaupload are featured in the papers, they are Julius Bencko, a Slovak designer and Bram Van der Kolk, a Dutch programmer.



Kolk stated that the main idea to use the services of an offshore company was to remain anonymous.



"The British Virgin Islands are for companies what Mega is for files: privacy, at least as long as the information does not leak from the trust office!" Kolk said via TorrentFreak.



They did not want their boss of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom to find out about their other project.



"Not so much because our project was competing with Megaupload or that we could thus spend less time on Megaupload. More because Kim would never allow it in principle, and it would lead directly to an unnecessary escalation."



Due to privacy issues, many file-sharing websites like Megaupload, The Pirate Bay and others are located in Cyprus, Panama, the Seychelles and the British Virgin Islands.



The parent company of The Pirate Bay, Reservella was formed in the Seychelles and TPB insiders revealed to the publication that info about Pirate Bay is not likely to surface from the leaked papers.

