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Sigh, this is related to the Pirate Bay trial. The pirate bay does more than providing "search" for torrents. They provide hosting for the torrent files and al
by Steve0 17y ago
Sigh, this is related to the Pirate Bay trial. The pirate bay does more than providing "search" for torrents.
They provide hosting for the torrent files and also they are running trackers for the torrent files. The torrent network is backed by these trackers, this is a key difference between Google and them.
- GrandMasterBirt 17y agoRight, torrentz.com has been around for a while they provide the search, and aggregate all the trackers found for the same torrent across different sites. However they don't host the trackers nor do they store any torrent files. Torrent files in themselves are not illegal. They are simply pointers, its the trackers that are at fault. Trackers facilitate the ability to download illegal content, where torrents and a search engine don't in themselves, they just link to trackers. On the same note... Go google :) I just find it funny.
- ivankirigin 17y agoI'm certain google caches copyrighted content, making them an explicit distributor of the content. That's something no tracker does. Either way, the pirate bay trial is a symptom of a bigger disease. I think this helps highlight that.
- jmtulloss 17y agoI believe there have been several court cases that have established that caching is OK.
- mixmax 17y agoAlso, illegal content is (I presume) a large part of thepiratebay's searchable content, while it's a very small part of Googles searchable content. Legaly I believe that makes a big difference.
- staunch 17y agoIIRC that was a key point in the Napster trial. It was hard to argue there was a "legitimate" use.