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Originally Posted by markbot
I think that if some person setup a website that linked to and cataloged merchants who expressly sold stolen jewelry at discount prices....the person would probably be breaking some laws. That's my guess. You are actually acting as a marketer of stolen property in effect. I see this as very different from the Google or Bing search engine.
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It doesn't matter if the links came about by someone manually finding them or an automated bot finding them. Putting them up on the next where others can easily access them is no more legal/illegal doing it either way. So if this kid is breaking US law, then so are the search engines.