Re: Heartless B*stards
The problem is that if they acquiesce to one request to take down a torrent (Which someone could just put right back up a few seconds later), it would set a precedent where they are now open to remove anything that anyone finds offensive. Sure, no one will find a problem with releasing autopsy files of children, but where do you stop? Would you want them to take down photo collections of children being starved to death during the holocaust? What about starving children in Africa? Or photos of ISIS's atrocities? All of those things are quite repugnant and no one wants to see them, but they need to be seen. With the files of those children, what if the files indicated that the children were abused or someone happened to know something missing from the investigation that could prove the suspect's innocence?
Besides, with the way the torrent protocol works, they;d have to hire an army of staff members to download every single torrent, look through the included files, and cross reference them with every single complaint ever brought to them, just to make sure that the content stays down.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
