  :::I quote;  ::::External sites can possibly violate copyright. Linking to copyrighted works is usually not a problem, as long as you have made a reasonable effort to determine that the page in question is not violating someone else's copyright. If it is, please do not link to the page. Whether such a link is contributory infringement is currently being debated in the courts, but in any case, linking to a site that illegally distributes someone else's work sheds a bad light on us (see Wikipedia:Copyrights and in particular Contributors' rights and obligations).  :::As for your Pirate Bay obsession, I will note again that we are disgussing phpBB, not The Pirate Bay. If you feel there is some great unjustice in progress here, you may assist me in my attempts to keep such links out of The Pirate Bay too. However, we will probably face opposition from people who believe that linking to the sole subject of an article overrides most other concerns.  :::Or if we wish to ignore reasoned debate, may I point out once more that vBulletin prohibits external links, and there doesn't seem to be anyone there running to tell their mummy how nasty the wikipedia boys are being. It is, of course, your right to allow this argument to spill over to vBulletin and cause a massive stink that envelops the whole internet.  ::: 