Torrents

I think torrents are illegal and the industry is suffering from this. People tend to torrent movies, songs or other similar things before its release. Instead of buying it to the authorized dealer so the industry can function well, we download torrent. How can the industry produce more quality things if people are not helping? It takes two to tango as the saying goes. However, though buying the original is the proper way of helping..I tend to download torrents myself. Contradictory? yeah can be..But how can i buy things if i don't have money?

Depends on your national laws. In my country downloading torrents is fine but seeding however might cause legal implications in theory. Furthermore sharing torrents here isn´t too smart either. I find downloading torrents fine but if my content would be available for everyone to be downloaded for free then i would be pissed off probs.

i know copying copyrighted materials, in any form is illegal. downloading files from the internet should be stopped, if the law will just be implemented. but there are people who cannot afford to buy these materials so they resort on downloading it from the internet. my only question is, what is the different from torrents and download?

Hi friend, Torrent files are illegal but now number of torrent sites came and every one are downloading from the different torrent sites.In torrent sites the full clarity will be their and it will be a divx format.In torrent sites all movies,songs,games will be their to download from that site. have a good day.

I don't think torrent is illegal. Because they are cover by copy right laws. I think they know that, if they share something from the Internet. But if those are under the laws I think they are allow for that matter...have a great day!

torrent downloading and uploading is a p2p (peer to peer) networking. . the way on tranfering files from the other computer to other computer is legal, but sadly the files distributed via this way is illegal. Coz files they share should not be free. Like games, music, vidoes.. these are files that are copyrighted. Developers and Creators will suffer, and developers need income for further development of ther products. .

I think torrents should be and are illegal because, you can get viruses from torrents, i learned that lesson the hard way, i'd never download anything from a torrent.

Its only illegal if its being used to download things you don't have the consent to. My favorite artist has given us permission to download some of his work for free and that is where I first learned about torrents because he sent us the link to one to get his music.

I don't think it is illegal.Everybody can't buy originals.torrents get new movies and audio.It is good we should encourage them.It is not any loss to the company.They will get their profit.

it's illegal if you have made money out of that copy

I don't download torrent because I'm afraid of getting viruses.

Thanks. You reminded me to start the torrents application on my PC. I restarted my PC around an hour ago and I forgot to start torrents. But I never thought about it that it may be the violation of the copyright act. But giving it a second thought I guess it is actually. We can download anything, any software without paying for the license fees. It is not the way in which it should actually work. But in such a vast scope of internet it is very difficult to stop people from doing such illegal stuff.

i wouldn't consider torreting as illegal. why? there are some companies that lets you download programs via torrent .. if i'm not mistaken, Open Office and some Linux distro does that .. as for movies and music, the same also applies as what i've mentioned above. sometimes, it's more like testing the water. if a certain movie/music is really that good, then buy one. but some just don't bother to since they already have a copy.

Yes, sure torrenting is illegal cause your downloading copyrighted software, movie, music that someone owns. Yes, its easier to just go to the internet and download something than go to a store and still have to pay for it, its just how people work. They are not gonna pay for something they can get for free and there is no way to stop illegal distribution from happening. No, I don't think that buying something from a store is more satisfying because the product is the same wether you buy it or you download it.

Perhaps there are people who are using torrents illegally and are not aware. Some people may conveniently remain unaware. It is amazing that the bit torrent protocol is meant to benefit internet users by providing peer-to-peer download, thereby decongesting servers. Perhaps the best use of torrents is to rapidly and effectively share valuable media to help improve the quality of life on the planet. There's a saying: "For every good innovation, Man is able to find a way to shoot Man the foot :) " Cheers

Can somebody actually practically describe what a torrent is? I know there are so many of them and some people say they are legal and some say they are illegal but what are they in terms that regular people can understand?

If you use torrent to upload or download files that are not yours, then it could be considered illegal. Torrents are very rampant source of softwares and movies and it is illegal to download if it has a commercial value, that is being sold by authorized distributors. It can be considered piracy. But open source softwares maybe legal to be downloaded through torrent. Video clips for information dissemination maybe legal though.

Torrents and limewire are both file sharing ,so, the fine is the same and you know what you are downloading is copyrighted if its an album or song made by an artist that has their album for sale and you are getting it for free.Its ILLEGAL.It is not illegal if you are downloaing something put up by the company or artist.

The way I see it is that illeagal downloading will be here forever. There is no real enforcement on illegal downloads, which does not stem the tide of people who illegally download. The thing is that most illeagal downloading is done by children/students or those who ave relatively little disposible income. The fact that they have the money is the reason why they illegally download. (I have downloaded muisc illegaly before due to the fact that i had no real money to legally download them, and if I had more money I assure you that I would buy it legally, as I imagine most others would). So while this problem exists, with little or no detterent illegal downloading is here to stay.

I asked myself the same question and I think it is a matter of how you look at things.For users,torrents are a great way of having games,music,movies,etc. for free.However,those companies that own the media that is torrented lose an increasing amount of money.Therefore torrenting can be considered a form of piracy at a global scale.