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Originally Posted by Nautilus
It is not exactly a legal precedent of course. But it is quite common nowadays for courts to take into account community standards and practices of big respectable companies such as Google. When Isohunt and the likes start screaming next time "we're like google" any good lawyer will simply ask them "where is your repeat infringer policy similar to the one that Google implemented". There are good chances that courts will side with that arguement.
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except the fact that Google exempts there own tube site means that all isohunt will have to do is add a Google search query under their own results
and say see where just like Google , we exempt our own stuff too , and then just USE Google , including their repeat infringer policy afterwards.
it not the "legal precedent" you want unless it universally applied.