Steam censors "Kickass.to" mentions in chat client

This is idiotic.

They are watching us

I do like me some censorship.

Welp, guess I just call it Kick@ss when mentioning it on steam.

Oh dear. So is a shitstorm going to erupt because Steam does not desire its service to be complicit in people's criminal lives, when the media industry continually exerts pressure on governments?

Like, seriously. Is it so difficult, if you need to share a torrent with somebody to just send the torrent file through, say, Skype, or upload it to some third party service not directly tied to piracy. Or better yet, just get the info hash for them to paste into their client and skip the whole linking business?

you really want Valve to support illegal stuff? look the $#!+storm hatred riled up for steam just by being greenlit.

Why wouldn't they censor out torrent sites? People who have to sell games for a living normally don't support people who steal them. It's even in the ToS that you can get a community ban if you endorse piracy.

Now if only they'd block level 0s with private profiles. Wait, that would actually be useful. never happen.

Couldn't they have removed all mentions of Kick-ass 2 instead?

Use KAT.PH then, it's shorter to write anyway.

aren't discussions involving torrents anywhere in the community against Steam's ToS?