It's not that I'm unaware of peer-to-peer sharing, or the fact that uploading is inherently part of browsing. My thinking is, most content hosts are published to be found. An indexing process could find published content, and laws could enforce findability.
It's about as effective as our existing regulatory systems. For instance, a lot of commerce is taxed and regulated, but you could just walk up to somebody and make exchange. Never air-tight, but it is enforcement.
Is my suggestion wise? I definitely don't think so, but it is feasible. And maybe I'm not considering something correctly -- but, please, don't be rude about my technical prowess. I'm just trying to strengthen our argument.
That's not true. The problem is, for any given file online, I may have permission from the owner to access it, but you may not. I shouldn't be prohibited from accessing it just because you don't have access, so the central service needs to know who is accessing it and know their rights to said file.
Without that, there is no way to tell if a link is really legal or not. And that is what Google was saying is impossible to handle.
