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I can't help but to see parallels between this "Money Service Business" applies to noncustodial services and The Pirate Bay's struggle against copyright trolls and, later, the Swedish State.

TPB also didn't host any illegal copyrighted content, they merely facilitated users sharing it beweem themselvs.

Samourai's Whirlpol, also didn't touch useers funds a merely passed message.

To me, we are fighting the same semantics

Average Geo 1y ago

So Samurai Whirlpool is like an ISP? ISPs make a profit connecting people to the Internet and people use that connection to purchase stuff with a credit card (ie Amazon) or to do fiat banking with their financial institutions. So, the ISP is a “Money Service Business”? 🤔 now what if that connection is at a coffee shop where there is no KYC of the coffee shop customers. Oh my! The whole Internet should be arrested!

I hope the judicial system sees the idiocies of the US government over these arrests and illegal enforcements…

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sommerfeld 1y ago

The Pirate Bay was also only providing magnetic links which were just small pieces of non-copyrighted data.

That's my point: the State will twist semantics until it gets what it wants.