Sharing on Facebook is a good thing unless it’s using Limewire

With a market share of around 35% Limewire is one of the best known filesharing applications and this was something they were hoping would become a success application on Facebook. The only problem is that Facebook doesn’t want anything to do with any application that even has a whiff of dirty filesharing connected to it.

Previously Facebook had blocked The Pirate Bay now it seems that Limewire is the next company to feel the puritanical slap of Facebook as they were informed their application’s sharing feature would be blocked by Facebook. So even though filesharing applications can be, and are being, used for sharing legal files Facebook is not taking any chances.

Speaking with TorrentFreak the Vice President of Product Management for Limewire, Jason Herskowit had this to say about the ban

Jason Herskowit, Vice President Product Management at LimeWire told TorrentFreak that Facebook has requested a number of changes to LimeWire’s Facebook integration after they introduced the new feature. LimeWire quickly complied with these requests, but that was not good enough.

“Unfortunately, this week we were contacted again. This time not with a change request, but with a notice that they were going to disable the feature,” Jason explained. “Rather than leave the users with a broken LimeWire, we decided to disable the feature before they did so. As an avid user of both Facebook and LimeWire myself, I am as disappointed by this as anyone.”

“It is unfortunate for us all, particularly considering that LimeWire and Facebook share the common vision of being ‘a place to connect and share’. We hope to find a way to work with Facebook to re-enable the features that you guys continue to ask for and we sincerely apologize for having to remove this feature in the near-term,” Jason added.

Myself, I’m not surprised in the least with Facebook’s action. The last thing they want to do is fall in the crosshairs of entertainment industry and their lapdogs.