Is it illegal

[Chippiewill]

It's all about intent, the only reason Google doesn't want to remove this stuff from searches is because they want to say the searches produced are impartial and unaltered.

[peteyt]

And how, in court, will the prosecutors distinguish between links that have been automatically harvested by spiders and those those that have been manually added.

It's really a grey area and there are different arguments and point of views.


I can tell this will be a good discussion.:dance:

It depends. If the original poster actually created an illegal downloading site then there would be too much evidence as it would be obvious what the site was for. If he's just hosting a couple of illegal stuff but that isn't the site's main purpose then yeah he could deny it, but at the same time its risky.