But what is the factual problem with his post?
There isn't. Some AC and I just want people to be aware that he's out there making a bunch of other trollsome posts, some of which are getting modded up by unaware moderators. That's all.
Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody.
The way you cut it off makes it sound like Jefferson thought IP was contrary to nature. In actuality, he thought IP had no natural justification but could have pragmatic justifications. If you want us to take you seriously, try being honest for once.
Actually isohunt is solely made to search other websites for torrent files. Torrent files are not illegal, and they are not copyrighted.
Actually, the torrent files are illegal if their sole purpose was to facilitate an illegal act (that is, transfer of infringing material). Furthermore, torrent files are copyrighted (automatically) by whoever created the torrent file.
In any event, I don't think "But he's doing it too!" has ever been considered a valid legal defense.
In criminal cases it has been, under very specific circumstances: only if you can show the court that the reason "he" isn't getting arrested is that law enforcement personnel are acting on a discriminatory motive. If you can show that, then you have a selective prosecution defense, but it's very, very hard to get that to fly; the prosecutor gets to present whatever non-discriminatory reasons they can think of (i.e. we only prosecute high-profile offenders in order to deter others, we just changed our policy to prioritize this type of crime, the guy that wasn't prosecuted was less dangerous, et cetera, et cetera) and these are almost always accepted by the court.
Of course, none of that applies to this case, which is a civil suit. Plaintiffs can choose to sue or not to sue whoever the hell they want.
What can you request them to take down? They don't host any content.
The links. Duh.
If outlook could only be used for sending death threats, then I suspect Microsoft would be in trouble.
That would be a truly awesome product.
facilitates copyright infringement
You say that like it's a crime.
Knowingly and intentionally facilitating commercial-scale copyright infringement is a crime.
I know there's laws for facilitating criminal law crimes, I wasn't aware there was a similar law for civil matters.
Commercial copyright infringement is a crime under the US criminal code. It is at the combined discretion of the copyright holders and the US DOJ whether to prosecute or to sue (or neither).
What % of IsoHunt searches are used for finding illegal torrents? What % of Google searches are used for finding illegal torrents? That's what will matter to the court.
Well, that and the fact that IsoHunt marketed itself as a way to find pirated content, whereas Google markets itself as a general-use tool.
Intent matters only in sentencing.
What? Wait...what? *boggles at the absurdity*
Back in high school, the cops did a drug sting on campus.
Thankfully, copyright infringement is not a criminal category yet.
Since when? Willful copyright infringement on a commercial scale has been a crime for a decade and a half, at least.
They busted the drug dealers AND the people that told them how to find the drug dealers.
By that reasoning, we could lock up most politicians. They've been telling me there's child porn on the internet for years.
Only if the politicians told you specifically where to go on the internet. I'm assuming they didn't bust people merely for saying, "There are drug dealers somewhere in Jefferson High School."
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
