What Is Torrent | Is It Illegal To Download Torrent Files

What's a torrent?

Hello Friends. Lets Start Today's Very First Q: What Is Torrent?. Answer is: It's like a little file that contains data. Data can be about software, video, audio, etc.

Screen shot of Torrent website

Moreover There are two persons one of them called Seeders, Seeders have the whole file and Leechers (or "peers") have bits and pieces. Seeders share the torrent file on the Torrent Search Engine, and some one wants to download the torrent file and start downloading the file, They become leechers (or "peers").

Leechers communicate with all these different Seeders and giving bits of the files to them until Leechers have a complete file and you cease to be a leech and become a Leecher.

That's torrenting. With popular files you can have thousands of seeders and leechers. The more seeders, the faster a download will go.

Tip:- On the Internet, peer-to-peer (referred to as P2P) is a type of transient Internet network that allows a group of computer users with the same networking program to connect with each other and directly access files from one another's hard drives. Napster and Gnutellaare examples of this kind of peer-to-peer software. Major producers of content, including record companies, have shown their concern about what they consider illegal sharing of copyrighted content by suing some P2P users [Source]

So i gave you the basic information about Torrent. let's take look another Question.

Is It Illegal To Download Torrent Files Or Not?

No it's not.

"Torrent" files are a small file of information used by a file sharing technology known as "bitTorrent"(for example). bitTorrent is nothing more than a file downloading technology. The technology used to copy a file to your machine is not illegal. Torrent" file has some administrative information in it, there's nothing wrong with downloading it.

Is it sound good... are you going to download the Torrent? But wait, take a look following lines.

In some ways, the problem comes from looking at exactly what kinds of files are being downloaded.

Downloading Copyrighted files without permission is illegal.
It doesn't matter what technology you happen to use to do it.
Technology can be bitTorrent.
Technology can be FTP.
Technology can be Web Downloads.
Technology can be email.
Or getting a CD in the mail.

If the material is copyrighted and you didn't pay for or otherwise get the legal right or license to receive those files, those are all copyright violations.

Some More Words

The technology which used to download file is legal. Technology of BitTorrent is legal. Torrents are legal. But using bitTorrent or any other technology to download copyrighted material that you don't have the right to is not.

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