Torrents aren't illegal and I think this is a good discussion. You are jumping the gun diet_poop. Do a little more research before you close this one. Any problems and ill be glad to try and help you pink floyd.

You watch. Any minute this is gonna get closed.

It will just prove the unjust closing of threads that go on here.

torrents are illegal terrelbot, it's freeware sharing that the government doesn't like, you can get apps for free illegally on there

torrents are illegal terrelbot, it's freeware sharing that the government doesn't like, you can get apps for free illegally on there

Torrents are not illegal. Torrents are not illegal. Learn to read. It doesnt matter what you can do with it. It was designed for legal sharing, and is still used for that. AIM can be used to transfer files illegally... but it isn't illegal software is it? Thanks for trying though.

A growing number of individuals and organisations are using BitTorrent to distribute their own material. Many adopters report that only by using BitTorrent technology, with its dramatically reduced demands on networking hardware and bandwidth, could they afford to distribute their files. This has led to a rapid upswing in both the size and quality of material distributed freely online.


Software
Many major open source and free software projects encourage BitTorrent as well as conventional downloads of their products to increase availability and reduce load on their own servers. Examples include openoffice.org[8] and most major Linux distributions, including SUSE[9] and (K)ubuntu [10] [11]

BitTorrent is also used to distribute updates to the BitTorrent client itself, as well as to other clients such as Azureus and BitComet.


Games
For example, the site http://www.gameupdates.org offers authorized game files via BitTorrent; the demo of the flight sim X-Plane is offered via BitTorrent, as are the World of Warcraft ingame patches. Another such example is PlaneShift, a free open-source MMORPG, which uses BitTorrent for its primary method of distribution.

Bram Cohen, the creator of the protocol, was hired in 2004 by Valve Software to develop a means of distributing patches and other content for online video games.


Films
The film studio Warner Brothers Records plans to distribute its films and TV shows using Bittorrent.[12] The fan-film Star Wars: Revelations is distributing two DVD images as well as the film by itself via BitTorrent, while Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning and Cactuses, both feature-length films, were provided for download via BitTorrent besides a centralized server.


Music
The SXSW (South by South West) music festival in Austin, Texas has released two packages of mp3 music files—nearly a thousand tracks—from their 2006 festival by BitTorrent download, along with trailers to two DVD films that can be purchased.[13] Babyshambles, Pete Doherty's band, distributes two collections of music, Shaking and Withdrawn Megamix and Untitled by Bittorrent from their official website.[14] In 2005, the rock group Harvey Danger began distributing their third full-length album, Little by Little..., using BitTorrent.


Other material
Peter Jackson's production diaries for King Kong have been posted for download using BitTorrent technology. Democracy Now! now distributes its daily television and radio broadcast using BitTorrent technology as well as by podcasting in addition to its traditional cable and satellite distribution. Several anime companies have also used BitTorrent technology to release teaser episodes and trailers online for promotional purposes, as a sign of embracing technology that is often seen as a direct competitor. Furthermore, the NASA space agency recently included BitTorrent as a means to download some of their larger space image files.

it's not legal to give someone a program that they don't register for, that's illegal, that's freeware sharing, that's what a torrent can do, also, for mp3's, free mp3 downloading is illegal, free movie downloading is illegal, that's what you can do with torrents

also, for mp3's, free mp3 downloading is illegal, free movie downloading is illegal, that's what you can do with torrents

It's the same as borrowing a CD from your friend

and it is also like what colleges do, they allow people to search for stuff on their network which has everyone's computers hooked up to it so if you want something you can download it from some other student's computer onto yours

Thanks for the offer but paranoia already helped me in a PM.

I am already aware of this, Mr.Napalm cleared me up a while ago, so, you guys are a little late. Give me a link to the thread, I'll unclose it.

Brushy brushy brushy,clicky clicky clicky... (http://gprime.net/board/showthread.php?t=7560)

Torrents are also great for getting pirated OSes.I saw a few Windows XP,Linspire,and Mac OS 8-10 ISOS on Torrentspy.

Now WHY would you do that?

torrents are illegal terrelbot, it's freeware sharing that the government doesn't like, you can get apps for free illegally on thereTORRENTS ARE NOT ILLIGAL

Not really, it's just another way of "sharing".

notice that the applications I was specifying were the ones that cost money are illegal to download and use for free

For anyone that thinks torrents are illegal, go read up on Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, aka 'The Betamax Decision'

For anyone that thinks torrents are illegal, go read up on Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, aka 'The Betamax Decision'

Good call.

For anyone that thinks torrents are illegal, go read up on Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, aka 'The Betamax Decision'
Where can I find that? And the only things illegal or close to wrong about torrents are leeches.

Where can I find that? And the only things illegal or close to wrong about torrents are leeches.

No. You know nothing about torrents, so stop discussing them.

Where can I find that? And the only things illegal or close to wrong about torrents are leeches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._v._Universal_City_Studios is a good place to start. The decision basically laid down the idea that just because consumers may be using the technology in potentially infringing ways, that does not necessarily make the technology itself illegal. There's much more to it, but that is one of the basic ideas.

It's the same as borrowing a CD from your friend
copying*

illegal

Torrents are large file p2p sharing. It is sort of like you download your whole cd in mp3 which is legal because you own the cd. But, you download something like a ps2 game and "you can keep it for 24 hours unless you own it". the thing is, government has to actaully search you if they believe you don't have all the games. They most of the time will warn you and stuff. Anywho, there is now Pando where you have to find someone who actaully made the stuff and is a little less popular than bittorrents. So, anyways, Torrents are not Illegal or else you would see a lot of sites like http://www.thepiratebay.org/ being completely shut down and not just warned.

IN coclusion, Torrents are not Illegal.

thepiratebay.org was shut down a few weeks ago, they moved their server to another country and brought it back online.

but it is still thepiratebay.org/

yes