Quote:It's a search engine for finding BittTorrent files. It's been in a copyright lawsuit with the MPAA for the past 7 years. It's essentially a Google for BT files because indexes and links to BT files but doesn't actually hosts any files itself, at least none that infringe copyright. What makes this especially important is that the ruling and settlement lends credence to the MPAA standpoint which would actually allow them to sue anyone linking to copyrighted material even if they have never hosted anything before. This includes me, you and any other consumer but also companies like Google or Yahoo who operate search engines that can be used for finding copyrighted material.

 

Of course, the MPAA would never sue Google because they'd never even hope to win that fight. They're perfectly fine suing and extorting money from people who have no means of reasonably defending themselves. It's calssic shoolyard bully tactics, pick on the kids that can't put up a fight but be nice to the bigger kids and the teachers.