Free torrents: yay or nay?

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Torrents are usually a way to download something for free, though it normally has a prize. Sites like The Pirate Bay, are probably the most famous torrent site. Do you approve of torrents, or disapprove?

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  • TheInfamousStranger
    10 years ago | pl

    Free torrents come with free viruses.

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    • davesumba
      10 years ago | pl

      Free torrents also come with free legal penalties.
      I never really use torrents, but the final season of the show I wanted to watch wasn't online yet. So the first time I used a torrent program, to download a few episodes of "Homeland," I got a cease and desist email the next day from Comcast telling me to stop or else.

      And my University's internet network doesn't allow people to even have a torrent-downloading program on their computer, let alone use it.

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  • Stifler
    10 years ago | pl

    Not really. Most torrents probably have viruses and things like that.

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  • misca
    10 years ago | pl

    Torrents are good, as long as it's legal. For example many releases of bigger software (e.g. operating systems) are distributed via torrents.

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  • marnen
    10 years ago | pl

    In my country government finance music and film industry, and because of that it is legal to download movies and music from internet for own use. But if you try making money by selling that what you downloaded, you will be arrested

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  • dinz
    10 years ago | pl

    Actually I believe this is why Music is so shit these days. Because people are downloading their material illegally, most of them (Music producers) have resorted to flooding the market with material that is either computer generated with no substance or where a song used to have a chorus, now these days the entire song is the chorus just being repeated over and over.

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  • kelili
    10 years ago | pl

    I don't download things often but when I'm looking for something I make sure that I get it for free. I live in a third world country so those talk about intellectual property etc etc it doesn't work on me.

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  • NotStrangeBird
    10 years ago | pl

    About 10 years ago I ripped my CD collection. Many hundreds. I am free to do what I want with the digital media as long as I keep it among my own computers as far as the law is concerned.

    I tried downloading some stuff from Microsoft. It's all loaded with DRM crap and I am not free to copy anything among my own computers without corporate approval.

    Last year I ripped my DVD collection. I found that if you look at a DVD funny it's ruined. That's a lot of money down the toilet.

    I've never been on a torrent. I can understand the mentality after my experience.

    Then again, for everyone like me there's 100 Chinese out there stealing intellectual property. No help for the situation in the long run.

    There's plenty of services like Netflix that will give unlimited access to movies and music for a fairly small monthly fee. A lot less money than I have in my collection.

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