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Firefox Add-On Integrates Amazon with The Pirate Bay

By soulxtc

Greasemonkey script from "Pirates of the Amzaon" embeds links from BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay alongside legal purchase links. "Pirates of the Amazon," a site that has now gone offline after receiving considerable exposure, has developed a Greasemonkey script for Mozilla's Firefox that embeds either a "Download 4 free," "Not Downloadable," or "Not Available" button into Amazon.com product pages. All you have to do is click the link, as shown below, and the relevant torrent tracker from The Pirate Bay will automatically load in your BitTorrent client. The add-on basically lets you shop Amazon.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).