Originally Posted by
Charles Wahl
What I don't understand is how someone can stop you from indexing. Basically that's Google's business, and they don't have a monopoly on it (yet). If you put it on the internet, what laws prevent anyone from indexing it? Someone should just do this out of Belarus or Iceland. Those other sites don't work at all the way Jaxed did, which is to give you the content based on keywords, and to hell with where you're located, or limiting how many results you can see.
That's what I was getting to earlier...when I mentioned that Google is essentially an indexing site and is often an issue in a myriad of internet related legal actions...
Example - when CL was getting heat for their escort ads, you could use Google to find an escort and get a list of responses. In principle, it wasn't that different from what CL did.
When the BT host clients get shut down, like Demonoid, the big issue that always comes into play that you can find a torrent with Google.
There is a differentiation made between hosting the index and linking to other sites...but it's a questionable differentiation. In the case of a Jaxed, the site with the content, in this case CL, claims intellectual property rights infringement if you post substantial amounts of their content. The fundamental issue isn't substantially different from the difference between a news article, or a review, plagiarizing a source and reporting on, or reviewing it.