[rhino369]

Not if you know you are collecting a bunch of copyrighted material. Piratebay can't use the safe harbor because they are clearly running a sharing site.

Also, the author suggests he was getting the links manually and posting them. That's definitely not covered.

[lukezli]

Hey, just wanted to clarify- I was not manually getting links and posting them. When someone posted a search query on my website, I would use 3rd party APIs and run the same search query on those APIs, then return results from those APIs to the users. All done programmatically.