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Google host entire books that are still known to be in copyright without getting the author's permission; that doesn't according to the courts count as copyright infringement. But we're expected to think that hosting content metadata is [contributory] copyright infringement?

Gun manufacturers are murderers in such a world.

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Just to play devil's advocate, gun sales are regulated in one way or another in many places. Permits, background checks, waiting periods. The pirate bay, in many ways, acts more like a gun runner than a gun manufacturer. They don't create the content, they just make it available and try to skirt regulation through a technicality or even direct non-compliance.

So like the HN darling Uber?

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