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Originally Posted by afv011
Indeed. And then there's the classic case of search engines - you could argue that they allow piracy as well, you can find torrents there for illegal material.
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But as long as they process DMCA takedown requests, they are covered by the Safe Harbor regulations, and immune.
Google have processed 14.75 million requests in the last month:
http://www.google.com/transparencyre...als/copyright/
Details for
KAT:
http://www.google.com/transparencyre...omains/kat.ph/
H33T:
http://www.google.com/transparencyre...ains/h33t.com/
Fenopy:
http://www.google.com/transparencyre...ins/fenopy.eu/
Google have received requests to remove 433,343 URLs for H33T. At $50 per URL, it would cost 21M$ to remove them from H33T itself.