COMMENT: Could Google founders be next in line for jail?

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  Check this:
  
  Why the Pirate Bay isn't like Google...
  
  http://futureofcopyright.com/index.php?page=news&id=313 Posted by YeahMan, USA
• Yes, they are different, and so shouldn't be lumped together. However, if I wanted to download illegally one of the latest films, albums, software etc, then I could go to my Torrent site of choice and look there, say The Pirate Bay. Or I could go to Google and get far more hits by putting the title in with the word torrent at the end, this saves loads of time as I would not have to go to loads of indivdual sites to find my file. So Google do actually perform a better service for Pirates than the actual individual sites. Posted by leancranker, United Kingdom
• I dont know where you come up with this stuff but the point is that Google indexes all data available to it via many means. Pirate Bay is a target spcific website. The analogy would be to have a city with people in it and a city with people only interested in drug production so the whole city is loaded with chemical factories and drug manufacturing facilities. In a big city you get that stuff anyway , what makes Google so different?
  
  A person looking for trouble will type in wolverine's new movie on Google and potentially expose themselves to trouble. Same goes in real life. Use real life analogies to find accuracy in examples regarding the web.
  
  As far as Google's founders , I hardly see them even remotely responding to a post like this none the less actually responding to an accusation that they index data for illegal purposes. It's humiliating just reading the post.
  
  Additionally you will have to perform spelling corrections next time you decide to write something.
  
  And on a last note , the pirate bay founders did not go to jail. In fact , they never spent even a night in detention. If they didn't , do you really think BRIN AND PAGE WILL? Posted by maz, uk
• it's £3.95 to rent from Blockbuster! Posted by FSDU, uk
• When you search Google for torrents, the majority of what comes up(other than junk) are torrents off of the major tracker, ISOHunt, PirateBat, Mininova, etc.
  Unless people host small amounts of torrents off personal websites a takedown of the major trackers would make things alot more difficult (until a new way to manage torrent databases was designed).
  
  Nothing will stop someone with time and energy who wants somthing, but it can be made alot more difficult for the standard joe Posted by Cosmo, USA
• Any person who believes that The Pirate Bay is no different to Google is unfortunately kidding themselves. The 'we offer illegal things!' marketing of it is the crux of the matter here.
  
  It's a bit like saying that a phone book full of assassins and bombmakers called 'Illegal Contacts' should be treated the same as a BT phone book, because essentially they both contain phone numbers and it's likely the BT one (if the number hasn't 'added a robots.txt file' - aka gone ex-directory) will also have the same number in.
  
  The Pirate Bay spent all their time bragging about how they are the home of illegality, and that they were above the law (however antiquated they believe it to be), so it really does serve them right to be smacked down. Posted by Rich, United Kingdom