We do it every time we view a web page. Unfortunately, bitTorrent technology has become confused with illegal file sharing, simply because so much of that illegal activity uses that technology. And yes, bitTorrent and bitTorrent-like technology can most definitely be used for totally legal activities. As just one example, many Linux distributions are made available using bitTorrent.
Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. Download right-click, Save-As Duration: — 2. Read the article. I understand copyright and all but how do those guys on U tube get away with it? Copyright lasts for years and years and it seems no one person has a right to anything these days. Do they have copyright — do they have a right at all?
But what about designers? This is my main seller, and some of the items in there are deliberately not available for free — there are other products I offer for free.
I contacted them and told them to remove it which they did, but the next day I went back and they are offering the same product under a different name. What rights do I have? I created it, I own it, I am the only distributor of it.
I want their site removed, they are prats. Can you tell me who I should contact in Canada to report someone who excessively down loads movies? People like this cause a lot of job loss in the country! How do i get it off. All music, software , text files, videos etc are illegal downloads if they have a copy right on it. Lets say thats true, i have downloaded games online and was found later on because i was sharing it. Is it possible to just download torrent files for yourself and not get caught and arrested for copyright infringement or theft?
Can a copyright owner create a version of his material with trojan horse or other malware to trick pirates? I just recieved a cease and desist regarding a piece of Adobe photoshop that I downloaded from a torrent site. The file I downloaded was a trial, and it was infected, so I got rid of it immediately. I actually complied before I was even warned. How can me the user, prove that I did not use it, and them the copyright holder prove that I used the software, or rather did not.
I did activate the trial that I recieved, but it had an infected executable anyways. I was initally downloading the same software from the adobe website on a trial basis, but it was terribly slow, and I have downloaded trials from torrent sites before and this has never happened up until now. The only other thing i have downloaded was a adobe trial which was really big and boring…So yea that really my question. I downloaded a game from what I thought was a real company but come to find out I had paid a person that had no connection to the game at all and then they threatened to charge me for copy right infringement so be careful.
Hi Thank you so much. I got the full benefit from this. My question is: I have read in some sites that the torrent is legal. I do need to download so many things I can not pay for. Why do not they do it? Well quiet frankly I didnt know bit torrents where illegal i have downloaded a couple of older games that i didnt even know they had for pc but with all this warnings coming in the mail to people iam honestly getting kind of scared besides i have no money to pay a big fine for something so simple.
I think that the law system in the USA is quiet messed up and upside down in some aspects but what can 1 voice change? Like one of the previous reader posted on top what will a leak of couple of thousand dollars , dollars do to their billion dollar industry comon people thats like a penny from a dollar. I can be accused of falling into the instant gratification instant gratification gave me.
In other words, if you want it buy it. Unfortunately, downloading or uploading any piece of software, game, or music without the necessary copyright agreement is a violation of the copyright. Being in the web development industry I can see both sides of the arguement, as companies are losing money from their product not being paid for.
On the flip side, many recording artists, or companies are just lining their pockets with the extra revenue. What are the minimum and maximum sentences? Are the chances of being caught and the consequences associated with them even influencing the way people torrent? Is our legal system incompetent to the rapidly growing technology? Now the people getting caught, are they getting punished for sharing files or just downloading the Torrent?
What is the difference between sharing online, and handing the physical DVD or game to a friend to try or view??? How many of us have shared our movies with friends and families or a CD??? Which then brings up a question about the movies and games that are rented from a video store.
The video store is not giving royalties to the production corporations……Hmmmmm— How does that work??? All of this sounds like nonsense to me.
It is crazy especially when dealing with the internet. The only reason why people are using the internet and the advance technology is because they have the ability to copy a file or movie that may have purchased and would love to protect their investment by making a copy. This stops then from buying another music cd, movie, or another copy of application in the future which may be hard to find or the price has gone up. Once that happen, you will wonder what happen to the internet and the technology.
I say get rid of the internet if it involves downloading a file, sales, or just viewing a movie. In a case where I legally purchased an album digitally, would it be legal to redownload that album, considering you already bought it elsewhere?
One would think, but this is one reason why people hate DRM so much. Unless you have a way to download the original from iTunes again, it is apparently still illegal to redownload the album from elsewhere. Stupid, IMO, but apparently the way it is. As always remember:. Because i know downloading movies is but im not sure about Series…. Then if I share it with a friend by sending it over the internet does that make it illegal? HI I am now even more confused.
Please clarify.. If I use different torrent website to download movies and music not sure about copyright status , is it illegal? Can I get in trouble?? Ok, I understand exactly what you are saying and am grateful for the insight. Thank you. Since I already purchased a VHS copy of these movies is it still illegal to download a copy from a torrent sharing site?
IS it illigal to download pictures that are not copyrighted and post them on a website that you are building? Would if you download a picture that was not copyrighted but you get a letter from a lawyer stated it was. Maybe someone before you downloaded a copyrighted picture and you just copied it from him.
How would you know that it was copyrighted? Let me see if I have this right!! If I download torrent and start download music or movies; it coming from a share file so it would not be illegal to do that.
But if I use it to download music or movies that are copyright from the computer than it illegal. So, let me get this right. So, you can use BitTorrent to re-download the track, right? So let me say this. Say I download a movie from a website as a torrent. I was mad when I thought my router was broken. I talked to my service provider and they told me that there was illegal downloading being performed that was being monitored. They even knew that I downloaded a movie 4 months prior to the shut off of my internet.
Save your money and pay for what you want no matter how bad you want a program, music, or to watch a video and delete it after you watched it. If you dont believe me, read what the privacy of what information they gather and what these Antivirus programs do with your personal information after it scans your computer for viruses and malware. Its too easy now and days to get thrown in jail. Especially from downloading a few of your favorite programs.
Save that money and buy it. I think if your country does not forbid you to download torrent and you use it for private use, then it may be legal? It is so easy to use. Just paste the URL to it and it will download the movie with high speed. Fed Up with Facebook? Switch to One of these 7 Alternatives. Affiliate Disclosure: Make Tech Easier may earn commission on products purchased through our links, which supports the work we do for our readers.
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Mar 6, at pm. Obviously, if you want to avoid ramifications, it would be best not to torrent at all. Note: choose a quality VPN for high-end protection.
The Tor browser prevents anyone from tracking your internet connection. Tor encrypts the data multiple times via Tor relays. Tor is a browser often used by journalists and activists in countries where internet traffic is tightly monitored. You can read more on setting up the Tor browser here. My last recommendation is to be smart when torrenting by avoiding the latest movies, games and music. Copyright trolls are more likely to be snooping around in these torrents due to the high number of torrenters downloading the latest releases.
Many avid torrenters have made the transition from uTorrent and BitTorrent to streamed content. Kodi and Plex are both open-source software media centers.
The software allows you to stream and play all kinds of content, such as videos and music, on various devices. Unlike Netflix, Kodi and Plex both stream copyrighted content without permission from the copyright holders. Because of this, Kodi is under a lot of legal pressure at the time of this writing, so you might have to look for an alternative in the future. What it comes down to is this: from a legal perspective, streaming copyrighted material from a pirated source is illegal.
If you want to protect your online privacy and avoid potential legal ramifications when streaming, simply follow the precautions listed above. Remember that your ISP and copyright trolls constantly monitor peer-to-peer networks such as uTorrent and may take action if they catch you torrenting copyrighted files.
To protect your online privacy, follow the provided instructions. Visiting the Pirate Bay website itself is not illegal. The BitTorrent protocol is not in itself illegal or unsafe. It is just the means to share any type of file, and plenty of legal torrenting services do exist.
The most popular torrent trackers, such as ThePirateBay and KickassTorrents, however, operate in a legal grey area, offering users free access to copyrighted content. Sharing and downloading copyrighted content by BitTorrent, or other means, is illegal in many countries and can be unsafe since sites including KickassTorrents have been shown to host malware.
These trackers would argue that they simply find and organize information that is already out there, and they do not illegally host any copyrighted content on their own servers.
Just like the BitTorrent protocol itself, they are the means to an end. Not everyone is convinced. Major trackers have come under heavy legal scrutiny from content creators and distributors who argue the trackers enable and encourage theft. The blame ultimately shifts to the users, the millions of individuals who host files on their personal computers, downloading and uploading movies, games, software, music, ebooks, and more.
Users connected to the same tracker are called peers, and they fall into two categories. A leech uses a torrent file or magnet link to download the file from other users on the network who already have the file.
These users who already have the file are called seeds. When a leech is finished downloading a file or even just part of a file , he or she becomes a seed, allowing other leeches to download the file from his or her computer. Comparitech does not condone or encourage any violation of copyright law or restrictions. Please consider the law, victims, and risks of copyright piracy before downloading copyrighted material without permission. Legally speaking, seeding and leeching copyrighted material fall into different criminal categories.
Think of it like buying illegal drugs: purchasing the drugs for personal use is definitely a crime, but a relatively minor one. Turning around and selling those drugs to others is a much more serious offense. The prosecution of torrent users has been sporadic. The chances of actually going to court or having to pay a settlement are pretty slim, but the penalties can be extremely high.
The frequency of copyright holders suing torrenters for copyright infringement peaked in the late s. Copyright pirates were sued for wildly disproportionate amounts of money, and most settled out of court. These public scare tactics shone poorly on the recording and movie industries because they were portrayed as petty millionaires bullying poor college students. Direct lawsuits are much less common these days, but the campaign against torrenters is far from over.
Now the job of going after individual copyright pirates has been outsourced to a growing number of small businesses known as copyright trolls. These companies locate torrenters who illegally download copyrighted content through their real IP addresses. They then approach the copyright owners and sign a deal that lets them take legal action on their behalf. Others are hired directly by Hollywood production companies to sniff out pirates.
With legal leverage and a list of names, the copyright trolls then go after torrenters via mail, email, or even by going door to door and handing out settlement letters. These letters are not legally binding documents or injunctions. Copyright trolls use intimidation, fear, and shame to make torrenters pay without ever going to court. The most common way to receive a settlement letter is through your internet provider. A copyright troll will go through the court system to subpoena your ISP and force it to email customers with a legal threat and hand over personal details.
According to US law, an IP address is not a person. Your case could be dismissed before the date that your ISP is set to reveal your personal details to the troll. If you respond and identify yourself, that gives the troll a more direct means of targeting you. This is a game of probability for copyright trolls. If they send out 1, threatening emails and 50 people reply, they only need a handful to actually cough up money to make it worth their time.
If things escalate and you decide to take action, lawyer up. Depending on your ISP, it may take actions against you on its own behalf. That could mean throttling your internet connection or threatening to hand over personal details to a copyright troll.
Why does your ISP even care? Because torrenting takes up a lot of bandwidth, and that bandwidth costs ISPs money. On top of that, an ISP could be receiving kickbacks from content owners and their associates. However, if you insist on torrenting, take the time to protect your online privacy and keep copyright trolls at bay.
The best way to torrent safely is by using a VPN. A VPN accomplishes two things: first, it re-routes all your internet traffic through a server in a location of your choosing, which changes your real IP address to one used by hundreds or thousands of other people assuming your VPN uses shared IP addresses, which most do.
This adds a significant layer of anonymity and makes it much more difficult for anyone to track you. Second, a VPN encrypts all your torrent traffic before it leaves your computer. That means your ISP cannot monitor your internet activity, nor can anyone else. Not all VPNs tolerate torrenting. You can check out our list of the best VPNs for torrenting here , which are services with fast download speeds and a focus on online privacy, security and anonymity like NordVPN , Surfshark , and ExpressVPN among others.
We recommend a VPN over Tor for a couple reasons. First, Tor is slow, and usually best for simple browsing and other low-bandwidth activity.
Another popular app among torrenters is Peerblock. Peerblock is a desktop firewall with a regularly updated blacklist of IP addresses.
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