Thought for the day - If the Pirate bay is guilty, where does that leave Google?

[CaptainHaplo]

Its amazing how this discussion mirrors the one on hate crimes.

Its not about what you do with a search engine - or what crime you commit...

It appears the biggest crime is what the intent is when you create a searchable index, or kill a person. If your intent is just to get every peice of the internet indexed, as well as find secret chinese subs and map every square inch of land on the face of the planet - then its ok. Even though these indexes could lead to robberies, pirated intellectual property, etc.
You didn't have an "intent".

Now - if you happen to be a radical who goes against the established norms, having views against what you feel is unfair laws (in this case, copyright laws) and you create a search engine that has no copyrighted data on it - though you do link to sources the same way the example above does - your a criminal who should be incarcerated.

Why? Because your views are against what others think. So your a radical - and must be silenced and punished regardless of if you actually did anything illegal.

Using that same logic - the US wouldn't be its own nation.... Monarchies and similiar would still be the only powers in the world.

Your allowed to have ideas - your allowed to push them. Its only if you DO something illegal that you should be punished. The key here is that the founders didn't actually commit a crime. But because they are radicals in their thinking, they must be punished.

Again - why not go after the pirates instead? See - justice is not blind nor equitable.