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Old 11-19-2009, 10:21 AM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by kane View Post
But how do you know which torrents are illegal. You yourself make the argument that the websites have no idea who has legal rights to download this material and who doesn't and you don't want them to be forced to have any responsibility in determining that so how can they determine if a torrent is illegal?
what exactly about

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create a liability that is outside the scope of the fair use defence (and therefore outside the scope of safe harbor)
do you not understand.

i private tracker if done correctly makes every other torrent liable
it also makes every other torrent painfully inefficent at all legitimate purposes (timeshifting, backup recovery) which means it is natually going to reduce usefulness of that torrent too (ala waiting 6 months to download a tv show because the torrent is go god awful slow)
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