On 23/01/2009, at 12:07 PM, Patrick Aljord wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]>
wrote:
My concerns do not apply to Google because they frame their website
and
purpose
differently. When you visit Google you're not prompted or reminded
about
opportunities for copyright infringement.
Well, gipirate is a search engine and has a bot that searches the
web for
torrents, just like google with torrents and the rest of the web.
You can
use bittorrent search engine to download gnu/linux distributions,
jamendo
music and more copyleft work, I do it all the time. Sure, many
people use it
to get illegal stuff. But if you look at the google top keyword
searches
you'll see porn, p2p, torrents, gambling etc on that list. So many
people
use it to do illegal/nsfw search, should we ban google too?
The issue with gipirate starts with the name. The name says 'theft'.
If it was called gitorrents or gitorrensearch, then maybe your
argument could be taken seriously. You wouldn't quibble over a site
called giporn being about porn, even if you could conceivable find
artistic nude stills on such a site.
Antony Blakey
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