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Re:Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be by canadaduane on Friday June 01, 2012 @03:50PM (#4055355)
Your analogy is paired because both piracy and meth are illegal in the USA. However, the pairing lacks equivalence in my view because crystal meth is clearly (and by nature, not by law) harmful to the user, while piracy is not.

A better analogy might be a website that helps others circumvent the Great Firewall of China. It is illegal in one particular country, but circumvention does not harm individuals (only the society, one could argue). "We don't circumvent the wall, we don't run a proxy, we don't belong to tor: that's how not interested in circumventing the wall we are."

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Re:Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be by MichaelGG on Friday June 01, 2012 @06:49PM (#4056256)
"crystal meth is clearly (and by nature, not by law) harmful to the user, while piracy is not"

Methamphetamine is helpful for hyperactivity, obesity, and narcolepsy.

I am having trouble constructing parameters in which your statement is true, but does not apply to nearly everything. For example, Tylenol (APAP) is clearly harmful to a user's liver.

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Re:Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be by rmc on Friday June 01, 2012 @03:59PM (#4055430)
Your censorship analogy is flawed, since copyright infringement is not legal in any country (im not sure, but Ethiopia might have started recognising foreign copyrights now)
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Re:Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be by PeterisP on Friday June 01, 2012 @04:39PM (#4055632)
Downloading movies from torrents is legal in Canada (covered by a copyright levy on data storage media), for example.
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Re:Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be by krzyk on Friday June 01, 2012 @06:27PM (#4056181)
In Poland it's also completely legal if you don't distribute (seed) it. Legal for movies and music, illegal for programs/games.
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Re:Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be by nddrylliog on Saturday June 02, 2012 @03:11AM (#4057368)
Same goes here in Switzerland. We have a tax on storage media that is supposed to cover that use case.
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Re:Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be by reaktivo on Friday June 01, 2012 @04:52PM (#4055702)
In many countries or at least Mexico, copying or linking to copyrighted material != copyright infringement , copying + profit does.
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Re:Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be by pbhjpbhj on Friday June 01, 2012 @07:30PM (#4056394)
>since copyright infringement is not legal in any country //

Last time I looked there were still a few countries that weren't signatories to international copyright laws, PNG I think was one? Maybe Nauru, Tuvalu, Vatican City?

http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/summary.jsp gives details of those places that aren't party to _international_ IP treaties. Note Vatican City is in that list as "Holy See" and is a signatory to a few IP treaties.

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Re:Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be by true_religion on Friday June 01, 2012 @06:36PM (#4056214)
Linking is not considered copyright infringement in most of Europe.

Your analogy has no legs.

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Re:Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be by canadaduane on Friday June 01, 2012 @04:14PM (#4055508)
I'm curious if you have a better analogy?
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