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Twitter/facebook/myspace/bebo (delete according to age, economic status and nationality) may seem all pervasive now, but if Samsung has its way, there truly will be no escape. The IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin saw the firm demonstrate its commitment to helping people chatter inanely and document aspects of their lives even mum doesn’t care about, by introducing social networking features to gadgets including cameras, TVs, digital photo frames, printers and mp3 players. Ok so I made the toaster up.

Not that facebook is all bad of course, after all, it can help Bollywood directors embarrass themselves with a spot of vaguely saucy chat, and allow girls trapped in storm drains to contact the emergency services when they’re too stupid to just dial the number (so much for it making you clever).

The sale of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is currently being investigated by the Swedish stock exchange BBC News is reporting. Earlier this year a deal for Global Games Factory to purchase The Pirate Bay was submitted for around 60m Kronor (£4.7m).

According to Global Games Factory owner, Hans Pandeya, there is confusion in the sale of an illegal site and it has rocked the boat among Swedish bankers. He said in an interview, “It’s quite unusual, buying an illegal site. Our system is legal, we just don’t want to tell anyone how this works [yet],”

The desire, once the sale is complete, is to take down the skull and crossbones and start distributing legal content, by paying the copyright owners and paying the file sharers, and also create some kind of massive supercomputing peer-to-peer grid.

This has caught attention of us here at The Processor as the number of users sharing files on the network must be massive and leveraging that kind of processing potential could in turn be sold on a pay for the content that was once being downloaded illegally. It really is clever uses of this technology that will get us a content download model that makes everyone happy.