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The case made against Isohunt was that the overwhelming majority of their index consisted of infringing material and the site was tuned for searching for infrin
by cptskippy 10y ago
The case made against Isohunt was that the overwhelming majority of their index consisted of infringing material and the site was tuned for searching for infringing material.
The situation is kind of like headshops in the US. A headshop is legal if it sells "tobacco related products" but illegal if it sells "pot related products".
Just like headshops, TPB skirts prosecution by being an agnostic tracker despite everyone knowing what it's all about.
- ikeboy 10y ago>Just like headshops, TPB skirts prosecution by being an agnostic tracker despite everyone knowing what it's all about. No. Founders of TPB have gone to jail, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial.
- TranquilMarmot 10y agoPeople operating online headshops have gone to jail as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Chong#US_vs._Chong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Chong#US_vs._Chong