A vast majority of the public understands that piracy is a
violation of intellectual property rights laws and is illegal. Some question
whether it is a legitimate reason to stop piracy, while others do not.
Currently, torrent clients, such as uTorrent are used to download immense
amount of data on the web, most of which is illegal.
Theoretically, as long as it is copyrighted and you don’t
own it, then downloading it (for free) via torrent is illegal. To put it
bluntly, if you’re downloading a free Linux distribution through your torrent
client, it is perfectly legal and you need not worry. But if you’re getting
John Lennon’s “Imagine” from The Pirate Bay, you are doing something that in
all likelihood is not legal!
And, if you ask me, I would say torrent should not be made
legal in any way because it is a threat to all profit making organizations and
if you can digest it, there is no need of making it as well! Because torrents
is not synonymous to piracy! That being said, I don’t support that torrents in
any way should be banned
Like http, which
browsers use to communicate with websites, torrent is also a protocol, and it
still has a lot of value to people who don’t pirate.
Like, to a surprise, Facebook and Twitter both uses BitTorrent
internally to move files around which is proved! Even the Internet Archive
recommends people use BitTorrent to download its content, as it’s the fastest
method and allows the non-profit organization to save on bandwidth costs.
Heck, even the government uses it!!
In 2010, the UK gov released several large data sets showing
how public money was being sent. To make this available, they offered them via BitTorrent.
Even NASA has also used BitTorrent to make a 2.9GB picture of the earth
available :D
And we all know torrent is the best way to distribute any
large chunk of data as fast as possible, saving money on bandwidth. Any large
pile of data that is free for anyone to access can be distributed publicly with
torrents!
So when so many things can be done legally with torrents, what’s
the reason of making it legal and harming the profits of all commercial
organization. It’s time we should start spending some bucks to get what we
want, because illegality is becoming too mainstream!:)
