[DawnFalcon]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

A German judge would disagree with you. See this article: Court Orders Rapidshare To Proactively Filter Content.

They've had to load the files into their hash filter, from what I can tell. It's trivial to defeat hash filters. It's both ineffective and annoying to legitimate users (hash filters are /slow/, when you start getting millions of entries - it'll delay legitimate uploads as well).

And you realise that the argument about hosting...well... torrent sites don't host the files either? But without the tracker, you're sol on finding the files. It's allways seemed sophistry to me to see sites like the Piratebay claim they're only linking. (Mininova, who do actively work with rights holders, have a better claim to legitimacy...)