[citation][nom]swamprat[/nom]If the purpose of hosting the links is to facilitate an illegal action then that sounds likely to breach some law or other - you've got a good slab of mens rea if nothing else.If you're providing a service that just happens to allow some people to breach the law, but you take all reasonable precautions to prevent them doing so / to undo the ill, that seems less wrong.To me at least, maybe I just think backwards and you're right(?)[/citation]
Well I think we're both right; sure, a system to facilitate an illegal action would obviously be illegal, but YouTube is a video sharing medium, just like .torrent files is a data sharing medium.
How individuals choose to use or abuse the system is up to them, but the system itself was not designed to distribute illegal material.
Much like a car actually; it was designed to take us from point A to point B faster than with previous methods. If the car is used in a bank robbery you don't sue the car manufacturer, right?
Bottom line is; neither YouTube nor the Torrent protocol was designed with copyrighted content in mind, they where just better ways to spread the content out to whomever wanted it. People do abuse both systems, but a lot of people can find a legitimate use for those systems and actually do use it that way.
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