I'm a bit surprised ISPs haven't been forced already to put a blocklist in for certain websites like TPB. That won't stop everyone but it would be a huge hit on their traffic and stop a large chunk of it. When joe blow finds it time consuming and hard to do he's likely to not bother doing it anymore.
I'm also surprised they haven't been removed from google. The people at google know they are linking to that shit too, they could block it if they wanted. I know there's special rules for search engines too... Funny what you can get away with when you have the cash for the best lawyers out there.
Someone will probably say you can't get in trouble for linking to sites with pirated content but that's not true. Well obviously for google it is. But I've seen more than a few court cases where people got busted for doing just that. Not long ago someone got in some serious crap for linking to family guy videos he wasn't hosting.
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Originally Posted by d-null
and easier to bring down, since they are the ones actually hosting the files
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They'll probably use the same defense google does for youtube. They didn't upload it, it's only a file hosting service, so it's not their fault. They'll claim they remove any pirated stuff that they find or that's reported and likely get away with it. The good thing about rapidshare is you have to pay if you want your files now. Most p2p users won't be so quick to pop out their CC when they were getting shit for free.