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Originally Posted by cess
Not really, for the pirate bay to be anything like the yellow pages, the yellow pages would have to be the illegal shit pages. Believe it or not pirate/piracy means copyright infringement, TPB owners know that and are proud of helping to distribute other peoples data/content.
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many a phone book has a section for escorts. the phone book is not liable if that escort agency provides the illegal stuff (sex for money) because some people are using those escorts for the legal activity (fake date to event).
The same is true for torrents, the same swarm (cloud) is being used for the legal activity of timeshifting as for the infringing activity of copyright infringement. Only the people using the swarm to infringe are guilty of copyright infringement. TPB is very much like yellow pages in this case.
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Napster and other filesharing services have been taken down just for listing content, they didn't share the data themselves. But they still got shutdown and other services have been shutdown for the same thing. TPB has only last this long because they are in Sweden.
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napster pointed you to the file, it directed you to a specific file, and setup the session between two individuals to trade that file. It was directly involved in the transaction that could be infringing. Which ment it had the ability to check if the action was infringing (and prevent it) and non infringing (let it go).
Torrents don't work like that, the seeder never gives you a working copy of the file, seeding can not be an infringing activity because if you tried to play the pieces i gave you it would not work. The a public tracker, only points to the seeder, and leaves the communication completely to the leacher (that why private trackers are better than public ones).
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Lol what? People goto the pirate bay to........ pirate! I love the whole "but there's like one legal torrent there people use!".... lol..........
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eztv.it uses the pirate bay as their tracker, they only distribute tv shows. Content that courts have ruled that people have a right to timeshift using a cloud.
so yes there are people using the pirate bay for legal purposes.