What’s the backstory?
Ever since the glory days of Napster and its demise, millions of users have been searching for alternate ways of obtaining free songs, videos and applications. Music industry associations and other copyright holders have been fighting every one, usually winning in court battles that even sued individuals who provided just a few files for download. BitTorrent was seen as a harder target for the copyright holders, because the files were spread all over the place and not on a set of specific servers whose owners could obviously be identified and prosecuted.
