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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
With one small difference: Yellow pages only index stores; basically, they act like a search engine. Rapidshare, on the other hand, hosts the files that are being shared.
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Thank you for proving my point, which was this article's unscrupulous attemt to enviegle the public into believing that an unsavory behavior should not only be made legal, is should be considered laudable.
There is not one whit of difference.
That was EXACTLY my point. Hosting, should not include rifling through the customers content one whit more than listing a business in the yellow pages should include going through a listed businesses inventory as if one had a search warrant. The Yellow Pages cant do that even if the phone company is also the land lord, nor should they be able to.
I expect the same in the online arena.
Where does this ridiculousness Idea that hosting sites, have some resource that can check all the content hosted come from, or that they should be legally required to do so come from?
That won't get to be presented as just a given.