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Originally Posted by Eman - PG
I'm not a layer but I play one on TV. Aren't torrent sites (ie PirateBay) arguing that what they are doing is NOT illegal because they only host the torrent file that has the tracker location with the peers and do not host the actual copyrighted content?
Technically you'd have to go get a court order against the torrent site to release IP information on the seeders/trackers of the content and then go DMCA the ISP and upstream of the person (thousands/millions of them) who are hosting your file for sharing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent |
This is a tricky area, but when you are the enabler and you are made aware that you are providing a house for people to do something illegal then you become guilty by association.
It's like saying if you own a crack house and profit from the crack sold there you are not liable because you are not there and are only the owner of the house and renting it to someone else. If you KNOWINGLY are doing something and taking part in it you become liable.