[ivanhoe]

What about Youtube? It streams huge amounts of illegal content everyday, and it's not just indexing it, but actually hosting the content. Frankly, there would be no YT as it is today if it wasn't hosting tones of music videos illegally.

[agumonkey]

Agreed. There was a time when they strictly enforced blocking of new and removal of old illegal content. My account was flagged many times for tiny snippets of classic 80s movies[1]. That made YT stay outside legal problems. But since there's been a new wave of 'full movie' uploads so I don't know where they stand.

[1] I'm sure copyright holders benefited more than suffered from this free advertisement of love but anyway.