linking to illegal data may be prosecuted as distribution, even if you're not the host

if you're contributing to a distributed index where people are searching and retrieving material thanks to the meta data on your drive, IMHO that's pretty close to distribution

So if someone puts a sticker on your car that has the url of an illegal website, then you may be prosecuted for illegal distribution?

If i signed up for a membership to the "stick a url on my car club" then yea

> linking to illegal data may be prosecuted as distribution, even if you're not the host

Google also links to illegal data and actually Google is probably the largest distributor illegal data in human history (if by "distribution" we include linking)

and they benefit from safe harbor laws allowing them to remove the link as they are notified of its illegality

Yeah the point here is how this kind of legislation can also benefit distributed search engines

Otherwise what is actually being legislated here is that search engines must be centralized, cementing Google's stranglehold on this field

here's the thing with law, it's not code.

if they argue nonsense and the judge buys, it's that.

law enforcement uses hashes of bad content. torrent conveniently uses hashes. the expert can argue if you have the hash you have the content because how torrent works.

the judge that accepted the argument about how torrent works but refused the argument about how tribler or freenet etc works should be disbarred imho.