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Old 04-17-2009, 02:28 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by mynameisjim View Post
I read that lawyers are looking into whether this case has implications for Google, which also simply links to copyrighted material, which is all TPB did as well.

But I guess the judge said that the biggest factor was that TPB was clearly a commercial venture created to make money. If they did it for free, they probably would have been fine.
1 the pirate bay linked to content (.torrent file) that created a session that linked to content

2. google makes money selling advertising around those listing, just like thepiratebay.com
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