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Originally Posted by Shaggy
So your view is that every time you use a search engine and click on a link, it is your responsibility to research whether that site has permission from the copyright holder? You may as well make using the internet illegal, everyone would be guilty.
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Did you just avoid answering my question?
You might have noticed that I was asking, not rhetorically, what your view was. But my view, since you sort of ask, is that there does seem to be a difference between deliberately seeking out in copyright books from places where you don't have to pay for them, for example by the use of search engines that crawl the likes of Rapidshare - which are not ordinary everyday search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing or Ask, and using one of those everyday search engines and following the links that it provides.
Quite what that difference consists in - a legal difference, a moral difference, a difference in intent - I'm not sure, but the activities certainly do seem to be different. Don't you agree?