Originally Posted by gideongallery

you finally got there is a difference between directly profiting from infringement and indirectly profiting from infringement

selling advertising that is within the video itself couples the revenue DIRECTLY to the content since they will only see those ads if they download the video

providing a swarm based backup solution and selling advertisers space around the pages that provide (which people will see weather they download or don't download the video) is indirectly profiting from copyright infringement.

there is a huge difference between the two, sony admitted in their manual that their device could be to infringe on copyright, and even that did not justify stopping the sale of the vcr.