Thread: Torrents!

Well, quite frankly loopholes, like what Korittke said. Theres ways around everything. The long story short is that many torrents are "legal" because they require no cost/time from original distributor to host or get their work out there. Many torrents are funded by legal companies who simply bought the rights to share the product from whoever owned it at an obviously reduced price. (They know its going to get ripped, may as well make a bit of $$ (Doesnt happen often in "Big Blockbuster Movies" )). The torrent hosting site can easily make the money back through adds from sponsors/premium memberships for access to the 'top quality torrents'.

Not all torrents are rips of copywrited information, and that is the reason many websites are still going. It would be like shutting down you tube because one person posted porn. Go to your favorite torrent site and I guanuntee you will see a disclaimer along the lines of "The administrator is not responsible for any/all material posted by users on this website, its purpose is not to host illegal torrents, lala".

Of course we all know 99% of the shit on these sites are rips, and really some big lawyer making legal threats are enough to shut most sites down because they know at the end of the day they were in the wrong one way or another, so it dies.. another site takes its place. Many sites do fight, but its like trying to arrest a police officer, pick your battles.

Such is the circle of life until they make a real law, or accept public file sharing. I wouldnt hold your breath for the latter.