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Originally Posted by HarryT
The issue is not about people "needing" to find torrent sites, but about links to pages on TBP being returned by entirely innocent searches.
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That actually happens?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Of course it is. Action was taken to block access to TPB. That's very much "against" them even if they weren't the defendents in the case.
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What action was that? To make the ISPs block one door, when TPB has complete freedom to make other doors? The action harmed the ISPs, while TPB got free publicity.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
The court has apparently rejected those and the rest of these arguments. Apparently, in the real world these nice distinctions you espouse cut no ice in the face of the actual avidence of TPB's actions.
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The language of the decision is strange. If you accept it, then those that used TPB to get files have been authorized to do so.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Authorise was defined in the ruling.
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As what?
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I assume the casuals are people who search for something they want, then when the top results all say DOWNLOAD FREE HERE they click on those instead of BUY NOW ON AMAZON on the next page.
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What you are describing are links to direct downloads, not torrent sites, so not TPB.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Are they proposing to close it down, or just rename the street signs nearby and hope that nobody can operate a map well enough to find it anyway?
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This is the funniest post in the thread.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I travel in countries where they use plenty of pirated copies. But all old versions like Windows XP. Few dare to use the Windows 7 copies, apparently they are seriously messed up.
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Wouldn't the choice between XP and win7 be based on the hardware that they are going to put it on?