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Re:RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay by ikeboy on Monday June 06, 2016 @06:22PM (#11850932)
>Given that TPB doesn't actually host any content that could be taken down by a DMCA notice

Which has not been established by any precedent yet, as far as I've been able to tell.

>Their response to "take down links to this hash" is "you don't own that hash" which is true.

That's not the responses they've given before. (see http://beebulletin.com/hilarious-pirate-bay-legal-responses/)

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Re:RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay by abritinthebay on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @03:00AM (#11852866)
The legal precedent is the DMCA itself - it can't be used against things the person doesn't have copyright over. It's quite specific actually.

Those hashes are not what they have ownership of.

Now if you meant hat they want to expand that law... well yes, but that's different.

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Re:RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay by ikeboy on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @06:35AM (#11853540)
Claiming that your untested interpretation of the law says something does not make precedent. This particular argument hasn't yet made it to court, but torrent cases have, and torrents are basically just more detailed hashes of each section of a file. Your argument would imply that torrent files are also legal, and yet Isohunt and others have lost in court over them.
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