They host torrents files that link to infringing copyright. Without being an expert on US law, I am pretty sure that is illegal in the US, because<div>- even links to streaming sites are illegal as recent cases have shown</div>
<div>- there is a lot of published letters by rightholders, some of them American, demanding to take the torrents down, citing American law.</div><div>- TPB is hosted in Sweden, and even under mounting pressure from Swedish authority did not move out of Sweden.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And seriously, the best argument you can come up with that you think TPB would be legal were it hosted in the US? Seriously?</div><div><br></div><div>If it would be as easy as you say, why are not European countries, where holocaust denial or glorifying the Third Reich (by using it's signs and symbols in a non-historic contest) not going after German-languaged neo-nazi sides hosted in the US?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sorry, I am calling bull on all you have said so far in this discussion.</div><div>-J<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Christian Hufgard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pp@christian-hufgard.de">pp@christian-hufgard.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 21.01.2012 12:45, Justus Römeth wrote:<br>
> So, both TPB and Megaupload being deemed illegal by US law, it is up to you<br>
> whether one gets persecuted there or not?!?<br>
<br>
</div>Which US law has been broken bei TPB? Did they host any copyrighted<br>
material?<br>
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