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Originally Posted by Daithi
The point I was making is that Rapidshare and illegal pawn shops are analagous in that they both knowingly sell stolen goods. The fact that one business can SEE the person who originally stole the goods does not in any way invalidate this analogy.
The Yellow Pages provide addresses, phone numbers, and Ads for legitimate businesses. They are nowhere close to being a business like Rapidshare.
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You have no point here.
You failed both to show that rapidshare knows what content it's users put up at any time - whether legal or not.
The yellow pages indexes criminal enterprises too. a lot. unlicensed electricians, stores selling knock of fashions, etc. etc. as with torrents, this is a minority occurrence. unlike Rapidshare, the phone company wont pull the ad on a customer complaint.
You seem to have this goofy idea that rapidshare is used only, or at least mostly for pirated material. where is the proof of your allegation? Do you present any evidence of this at all? Not that I have seen.
Torrents are used by people I know for distributing large video files of thing like civil war re-enactments, and their graduation ceremony from 30 years ago.
You haven't shown at all that pirate content far exceeds their content. In fact, you seem to be claiming that these people either do not matter, or do not exist.
All on the basis of unsupported assertion.