Update: Pirates of the Amazon Plugin Gone After Amazon Takedown Notice

UPDATE: Amazon has sent a takedown notice to the Netherlands students that created this plugin, and they’ve complied. The students said it was an “artistic parody” and a “practical experiment on interface design, information access and currently debated issues in media culture.” The plugin can still be found around the web.
You know all those Somali pirates who have been hijacking ships on the open seas? Well, now you can play your part by hijacking games, TV shows, movies and mp3s from Amazon’s website thanks to a new Firefox extension.
The extension cross-references products on Amazon with Pirate Bay’s torrent database. If the torrent is there, a “Download 4 Free” link will display on the Amazon product’s page.
The extension made the Digg front page.
This could be the type of thing that might push torrents into the mainstream. Outside of techies, most people my age (20s) and up aren’t frequent BitTorrent users. If they could bypass the search engines and hit a button on Amazon I bet they would be a lot more likely to download a movie.