Is bit-torrent illegal?
Its not illegal to have the program installed on your PC, but its illegal to download games, movies, music, videos, etc. that are protected by copyright laws. The only things you would be able to download legally are music bands that are just starting out and do not have any copyright protection, and free wear programs. Who cares if its illegal though, the chances of getting caught are very very low.
That’s like asking, “are guns illegal?” It’s not the gun that’s illegal, it’s what you do with the gun that is either legal or illegal. Example 1 – Using Bittorrent the legal way. Lets say I’ve got a bunch of pictures I’ve taken that I want to share with everybody — my friends, my family, and people who visit my blog. I can distribute them by using bittorrent. So I do, and the people who want to download my pictures just download my torrent file, and then they can start downloading them. That’s perfectly legal. Those pictures belonged to me because I took them myself. Example 2: Using Bittorrent the Illegal way. I’ve got a DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, I just bought from Wal-Mart. I want to share this with everybody I know. I make a digital copy of it, and make a torrent out of it for people to download, if they want to download the movie. That’s illegal. That movie is being sold in stores, and if I give it away for free, then people might not go out and buy it fr
