Depends what you are uploading or downloading. It's a way to share files, legality is based on the files.
lol I kinda view torrents as selling Pipes for pot... its legal to sell them.. but its illegal to use them for pot.
If you're downloading a movie, yes. If you're downloading a huge patch for a piece of software (that you own) or game, then no.
Technically it's not legal to BT copyrighted material. I would only d/l and wouldn't worry about u/l tons (people will argue with me about this). B/T is kind of like of like a giant pyramid scheme. If you get in soon you'll get what you want and you should get out. Don't buy DVD's or music CD's and then upload them to share with the world. Those are the people that will get into the biggest trouble. There is a chance that someday you could get a letter saying that you're being sued for $$$$$$$$ but that is a very very remote chance. Also don't use BT for child porn or to upload How To manuals on making Car Bombs.
If you can't get in trouble for downloading stuff, why did I get an e-mail from Verizon telling me that when I downloaded the movie file for Away We Go I was breaking copyright laws?
anything as common as web based torrent sites etc is ultimately bound to disappear due to being shutdown and/or get a lot of people into trouble. the fact people are getting emailed by their isps in regards to their downloads is a worry too. they are either monitoring your data streams or have been supplied access logs that link back to your ip etc. i stick to FTP with ssl connection and sends - they're faster than torrents in speed and release time, but torrents are pretty useful for older more random things it seems, ive still never used one though. if i lost access to my sites id probably look at newsgroups as a 2nd option.
Peer Gaurdian2 or Peer Block, get it! Comcast emailed me about an episode of FridayNL, I installed Peer Gaurdian (I now have Peer Block) and haven't recieved anything but my bill since.
I always use peer block when I'm dl'ing movies. Can't the IP still see that you're dl'ing or transferring huge files? Does Peer block prevents them from seeing what it is?
I asked that same question to the guy who told me about PG2 and he didn't know the answer. I think it prevents your hard drive from being scanned or something. Anyone know?
