PirateBay Founders Jailed

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Now I see the telegraph guy was asking if google for example could be held liable if an internet search provided a return which was a link to illeagly hosted copyright material. I think that is disingenuous as the google search is largely automatic so it won't know if the material is legit or not. With pirate bay there was definitely knowledge it was illegal.

It's hard to call TBH.

Yes, the majority of indexed links on PriateBay are illegally distributed items however, P2P sites such as these were initially created to share user created/un-copyrighted material. Not all torrents are illegal.

Also, yes I concede that they probably did initially create TPB to share illegal files but that's a hard thing to prove in court. I think a modicum of assumption has been applied to this case. That's not correct for a profile of this size.