So as I can find copyrighted content using google, so are they going to arrest the CEO of google? or the developers perhaps? Or me for finding it?

eg some search terms something like:

intitle:index-of+ mp3 + metallica

would likely yield some results, note this is NOT a direct link to content, I've not just turned /, into a link site. But out of the About 298,000 results, i reckon at least a few would be genuine.

I didn't check if i could actually download any of the resulting files as i'm not a pirate and for fear of being extradited to an apparently hostile country i've never been to with a 3rd world health care system and a REALLY fucked up legal system who think they are the world police, and its possible because apparently we in the UK have a 'special relationship' with you. Special as in SPECIAL NEEDS if you ask me.

in firefox you can do this already, pretty much, try it: in your address bar, type 'slashdot' and now hit ctrl+enter tada , it wraps the word you typed in 'www.' and '.com' works for slashdot / bbc although sadly not ubuntuforums i guess you could add a host entry for that if it really bothers you

I've since tried /whois u987654321 and it does return some info: 16:01 u987654321 (u987654321@chat.facebook.com) 16:01 ircname : Someones Name 16:01 server : myusername@chat.facebook.com. (jabber network) 16:01 End of WHOIS perhaps with a little irssi perl script i'll be able to make them appear properly in the nicklist too.

Hi,
  I managed to get bitlbee to log in ( i've written some php to log into facebook using curl for me from the server in question, and it spoofs the user agent. It was tricky but do-able )

but the downside is, all the usernames show up as u987654321 or whatever so you still have no idea who is who anyway. :( boo, so still no real fb chat in bitlbee for now

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/44558 greasemonkey script to keep you on https