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Re:Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media by nextaccountic on Friday April 26, 2024 @06:28PM (#40175008)
> 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)

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Re:Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media by jazzyjackson on Friday April 26, 2024 @06:53PM (#40175201)
and they benefit from safe harbor laws allowing them to remove the link as they are notified of its illegality
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Re:Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media by nextaccountic on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:16PM (#40175804)
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

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