forbes.com— "Google now can and does do what the Pirate Bay has always done," Edelman says. "And if they're prosecuted, they would have much more interesting arguments in their defense."
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This analogy has been used before in legal analysis of contributory copyright infringement:<a class="user" href="http://www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/rstaudt/classes/copyright_spring2009/group_assignmentsF03.htm">http://www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/rstaudt/classes/cop ...</a>"There are analogies in the law of aiding and abetting, the criminal counterpart to contributory infringement. A retailer of slinky dresses is not guilty of aiding and abetting prostitution even if he knows that some of his customers are prostitutes. . . . The extent to which his activities and those of similar sellers actually promote prostitution is likely to be slight relative to the social costs of imposing a risk of prosecution on him," Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote for the panel."But the owner of a massage parlor who employs women who are capable of giving massages, but in fact as he knows sell only sex and never give massages to their customers, is an aider and abettor of prostitution," the panel said. "The slinky-dress case corresponds to Sony [v. Aimster], and, like Sony, is not inconsistent with imposing liability on the seller of a product or service that, as in the massage-parlor case, is capable of noninfringing uses but in fact is used only to infringe."Translation: Aimster (and TPB) are the massage parlor, not the dress retailer.
No. It is absolutely impossible to remove every copyrighted link from google. Google's entire business is providing links. One link goes down and 2 more spring up. And google is still going to allow those new links.Therefore, Google is aiding in the violation of copyright. Intent has nothing to do with it.
Clearly because they run TRACKERS and host the .TORRENT files. Also you can sort by seeds and date...notMaybe in terms of searching but thats nothing NEW
If there weren't any other torrent sites, you wouldn't be able to find any torrents using Google. So Google is not the new Pirate Bay; the other torrent sites are the new Pirate Bay.
shark72Apr 19, 2009
This analogy has been used before in legal analysis of contributory copyright infringement:<a class="user" href="http://www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/rstaudt/classes/copyright_spring2009/group_assignmentsF03.htm">http://www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/rstaudt/classes/cop ...</a>"There are analogies in the law of aiding and abetting, the criminal counterpart to contributory infringement. A retailer of slinky dresses is not guilty of aiding and abetting prostitution even if he knows that some of his customers are prostitutes. . . . The extent to which his activities and those of similar sellers actually promote prostitution is likely to be slight relative to the social costs of imposing a risk of prosecution on him," Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner wrote for the panel."But the owner of a massage parlor who employs women who are capable of giving massages, but in fact as he knows sell only sex and never give massages to their customers, is an aider and abettor of prostitution," the panel said. "The slinky-dress case corresponds to Sony [v. Aimster], and, like Sony, is not inconsistent with imposing liability on the seller of a product or service that, as in the massage-parlor case, is capable of noninfringing uses but in fact is used only to infringe."Translation: Aimster (and TPB) are the massage parlor, not the dress retailer.
hecubus452Apr 19, 2009
No. It is absolutely impossible to remove every copyrighted link from google. Google's entire business is providing links. One link goes down and 2 more spring up. And google is still going to allow those new links.Therefore, Google is aiding in the violation of copyright. Intent has nothing to do with it.
thogsterApr 20, 2009
@mabsarkAt least include a link to a torrent that people would actually want to download.
punkyfeopleApr 20, 2009
Quick, register www.ThePirateGoogle.com !
stoneageApr 22, 2009
Not only does it host files, it also runs a torrent tracker. I don't see sites like uSniff.com going down, because they don't host anything.
ksg89Apr 23, 2009
Clearly because they run TRACKERS and host the .TORRENT files. Also you can sort by seeds and date...notMaybe in terms of searching but thats nothing NEW
thoughApr 24, 2009
If there weren't any other torrent sites, you wouldn't be able to find any torrents using Google. So Google is not the new Pirate Bay; the other torrent sites are the new Pirate Bay.
kyhroAug 24, 2009
lawl, f**k that you suck, noob.