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Re:The New York Times just stole our column. Should we sue? by kbutler on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @07:08PM (#3569192)
>5. The only offense so far is: the PDF was hosted on Times servers

The only offense by the pirate bay is hosting hash values of indexes of servers hosting content (magnet links).

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Re:The New York Times just stole our column. Should we sue? by pyre on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @10:05PM (#3569599)
The analogy would be more accurate if hosting PDFs was the only thing that the NYTimes did. ThePirateBay's only purpose is hosting those hash values.
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