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If a system has a "significant non-infringing use" then it's OK. If its sole purpose is to facilitate copyright infringement, it's not. That was the finding of the US Supreme Court in the famous "Sony Corp. v. Universal Studies" case when Universal Studios attempted to prevent the sale of video recorders on the grounds that they could be used to infringe copyright. The Court ruled that video recorders were OK because they could be used for things other than infringing copyright, and this legal principle has subsequently been applied to many other things, including to software and websites such as Google.
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