"MyVidster displays names and addresses … of videos hosted elsewhere on the Internet that may or may not be copyrighted,” he wrote. “Someone who uses one of those addresses to bypass Flava’s pay wall and watch a copyrighted video for free is no more a copyright infringer than if he had snuck into a movie theater and watched a copyrighted movie without buying a ticket. The facilitator of conduct that doesn’t infringe copyright is not a contributory infringer.” (To some extent, Posner adopted the reasoning of an amicus brief filed by Durie Tangri on behalf of Google and Facebook.)"
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