Gideon, you are funny. Most of the torrent sites don't want to host the meta data because they know that in a legal sense, that turns them potentially into the actual source for the content in question.
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This is the point exactly. Without the trackers, the end users cannot find the peers to get the file. This is the effective indexing "source" for the files in question. Without it, there would be a very few people with encoded files and no methods for anyone else to discover them. They could, well, email their friends I guess, but other than that, there would be no method for anyone to discover the content. That is the key to it all. The tracker initiates the process. No tracker, no process.
You are a fool arguing a less and less valid point all the time. You should stop before you prove yourself an idiot.
As for Viacom, they did overeach (again, I mentioned that) but as a whole Viacom has a massively winning hand over youtube, and they will prevail. I can assure you that youtubes business model and general site functioning will be entirely different probably within the next 12 months.
As for Swedish law, well, unless your swedish is really good, I somehow doubt you have bothered to read it either. I just look at the basic concept of who they are apparently suing (a bunch of swedish companies) for something that may have been done by other companies (not inside sweden). It would seem to me that they are caught up in the same house of mirrors they are trying to hide in. Plus, can you imagine in court attempting to say "these guys are trying to hack us to stop us from distributing their stolen copyrighted works"?
I don't know what Swedish is for "hahahahaha" but I am sure the judges will manage.