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“If KickassTorrents Is a Criminal Operation, Google Should Start Worrying” (torrentfreak.com)
11 points by evo_9 on Oct 3, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This argument brought to you by the same people who think that, "If copyright is inherited through XOR, then having copyrighted this one thing, I can claim copyright on everything in the universe, because any sequence of bits can be generated from mine with the appropriate XOR operations!" ([0]) Lo, your mighty logic has caused the entire edifice of intellectual property law to crumble!

Except, no. Society and the law are not dumb automatons, and can in fact tell the difference between Google and "KickassTorrents". So when Vaulin gets a jail sentence and Google doesn't start getting worried, these guys may be baffled, but the world will keep right on going.

[0]: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23




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