Hello all i have heard a lot about torrents and people do make bad use of them by downloading illegal things.But i don't use them.I want to ask if torrents are legal or illegal.
torrents as in the download method that uses seeders instead of a central server isnt illegal but using that method to download copyrighted files is illegal.
Yeah, what kingjacob said. BitTorrents are protocols for downloading, and are very LEGAL, just like P2P networks. However, the content that you download may not be legal. So I recommend being cautious of the things you download.
The argument from the torrents companies is that since they aren't hosting the content they aren't liable for copyright infringement. But ask yourself this before you download something via a torrent site...if you wrote a killer product, like an affiliate e-book, wouldn't it tick you off to lose sales because someone put it on a torrent site and people are able to access it for free. It wouldn't feel so good then.
It is a convenient way of sharing files online. But this is being abused since illegal copies are made available for public consumption. Torrent's purpose is noble. But contents available are mostly illegal.
any torrent site you go to whether it be private or a public torrent search engine
the majority of the files (99.9%) are going to be illegal to download
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