Do you download Torrents?

Canada
August 3, 2009 6:00pm CST
I am pretty sure almost everyone does it, downloading a song, a movie or a game, but has this question come up in your mind? Is downloading all these files illegal, as we all know that these files are unsafe if you don;t have a good anti-virus program. I personally think that in some countries, torrents are 100% legal, it is just what's put on the site that's illegal. However, my point is I have saved a couple hundred dollars download music files, but in a way, I am trying out new songs I wouldn't have purchased from iTunes if I couldn't get it for free. Just so you know I'm not that bad, I actually bought a song from iTunes, as it was better quality than I could find :P The good news is there are lots of legal files on torrents too, because lots of companies save money by hosting their files to download on other sites, like torrents which cuts their cost of hosting it on their own server. Torrents are here to stay, but are the people who download them too? Do you download torrents and do you think its illegal? And if it is illegal, do you think you will be charged?
2 responses
• India
4 Aug 09
Hi friend, Torrents downloading is not illegal, if there is a such rule then bittorrent,utorrent all torrent downloading clients are banned and thrown off market. Torrent downloading or say peer to peer file sharing is one of the finest way to share files. Most of the torrent downloading files are illegal, specially music and movies downloading. Some of the legal downloadable torrents are evealution version of apps and free apps. enjoy mylottting.
• Canada
4 Aug 09
Yes, this is true, the actual application is legit and legal, its what is uploaded and downloaded is illegal. However, with so many people doing it, it has become part of our lives we have been so accustomed to, that some companies even release so games, music, etc. on it, as they need to get a good rep built off their new products.
• India
4 Aug 09
Hi friend, Yah now too many companies release their torrents too. Best example in such field is Fedora OS, there is a option to download via torrent.
4 Aug 09
lol if downloading torrents was so illegal there would be about 1.3 billion people arrested around the world Me myself I download mostly movies and when I choose someone with good torrents i choose aXXo