Don’t forget that you can right click a URL and save it as a file, which only serves to reinforce your point.

I’m glad this article got posted. I made a comment on Torrent Freak this past week stating something along the same lines. I have Google to thank for more than half of the stuff I’ve “sampled” over the past couple of months. Google is actually better in some regards because it is not limited to torrents alone. Anyways, if an indexing site that neither hosts torrents nor does any tracking is good enough to be a legal target, then so should all the other search engines out there (Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Bing, etc). I’d really love to see the entertainment industry go up against any one of them for a laugh or two.

But torrents just merely index where content can be found also.

So a torrent file is nothing more than an index pointing to a content somewhere on the net.

A torrent file is not a content.

There is no difference between an URL and a torrent. It is the same thing in a different format.

“Indexing” sites do NOT host torrents, they merely index where they can be found.

oh, oh, I know the answer!

It’s what big money wants you to see. it’s all in perception (an illusion) with their branding and their marketing hoopla.

Money talks.

Of course there is no difference.

each one is a link.

It’s all the same.

Also, keep in mind the kartels get money from google and signed big money into google utube.

Money to the playing dumb (who wants money badly) cast this illusion.

Did I pass?

But torrents are not copyrighted and if they were they will not be the “property” of the Mafia. So what is the difference between a google link and a torrent?

NONE!

So justice is dead.

We now can eradicate these corporate parasites.

what do they do if they don’t host torrents? indexing sites host torrents that is what they do.

on the other hand metasearch sites dont host torrents (like torrentz.com) so maybe this is what you mean

and btw no metasearch sites is being sued

like google isn’t also

Google cache + .torrent filetype search = storred torrent on google?
(Going to have to try that, cache works for many other features)

Also torrents themselves are just links to trackers, which links to other computers. Lawsuits over links-to-links-to-links (with possibly more -to-links depending on the starting site)

Yeah, but, wasn’t that the whole point?!
Here we have the MAFIAA going after INDEXING SITES (who also don’t host torrents), while Google demonstrates itself as a prime resource to find the same torrents. This, naturally, raises the question of why Google is not targetted right along with the indexing sites.

I have often used Google to find torrents from not only tracker sites, but a number of different sources – some of which actually fail to turn up in a standard tracker search. So far, Google has not let me down even once on a difficult find. From my experience, I find this argument extremely valid.

but google does not host torrents or trackers it points to other sites that do like piratebay or even mininova (torrents only)

without the torrents and the trackers on other sites google is completely useless

google is a bad torrent site really and not worth work to shut down