@wakest @moonman @gargron That would protect site operators in most instances I can think of, legally-speaking.  (Though I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice).

In Canada the problem is the transmittal of this information is illegal.  If I'm not transmitting it myself, my hands are clean.  Links are a bit of a grey area, but given the precedent from cases against torrent sites seems to not penalize people for linking external content, I wouldn't be worried.