Sites such as Google offer much the same functionality as The Pirate Bay and other Bit Torrent sites but are not targeted by media conglomerates such as the IFP

Sites such as Google offer much the same functionality as The Pirate Bay and other Bit Torrent sites but are not targeted by media conglomerates such as the IFPI as they have the political and legal clout to defend themselves unlike these small independent sites. Torrent sites provide trackers, host the torrent files themselves, and their sole purpose is the piracy of copyrighted material. Google and other such search engines walk the web to make searchable the content of the web, and they respect the wishes of the content owners by reading and obeying the robots.txt files found on servers. Furthermore, Google takes down copyrighted material placed on their sites like YouTube. The difference is vast. The only similarity whatsoever is that both offer a search capability.