Private torrent sites are legal ?

**nrs** · 10-13-2008, 03:08 PM

i think that if you are going to host a tracker you should know what you are doing, eg you should know under which circumstances it is legal

its in some regions legal and in some not

**Tokeman** · 10-13-2008, 03:49 PM

The internet is legal, its what we all do on it that makes it illegal
0_o
I dont really understand how they can hold the site owner responsible for members, when they dont hold ISP's responsible for users on their network.

**ryan20021982** · 10-13-2008, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Tokeman

I dont really understand how they can hold the site owner responsible for members, when they dont hold ISP's responsible for users on their network.

I think the reasoning for that would be the ISP is just providing
a service but the torrent site if providing the file that you need
to get the copyrighted material

**Tokeman** · 10-13-2008, 03:58 PM

No, a torrent site is providing an index, an index of user submitted content. Indexes are not illegal, only the files are.

**integral** · 10-13-2008, 04:05 PM

The law isn't always black and white. The powers that be will crack down, worldwide, most assuredly. One could say that laws in places like Sweden are loose and accommodating for citizens, but it's just that their legislation is lame, honestly. Big business is being hurt here, people; piracy is getting more visibility as each day passes. You'd be silly to think that TPB is going to last forever. After that, the next sites to get axed will be the sites that claim to be "scene," an epithet referring to file/files that are shared between groups of people that adhere to certain rules, one of those being that no file freely available anywhere else can be shared. It's only a matter of time..

**alcoholik** · 10-13-2008, 04:17 PM

it's legal man

**derstev** · 10-13-2008, 04:25 PM

No offense, but the fact you have to ask that makes me think you maybe shouldnt.

**saulin** · 10-13-2008, 04:49 PM

No, a torrent site is providing an index, an index of user submitted content. Indexes are not illegal, only the files are.

And the torrent site knows that the content being indexed is illegal and yet it allows it. Therefore if the tracker gets busted, well the owner is usually the one that goes down. Not the 1000s of uploaders. Maybe some selected uplaoders but usually is the owner.

A fine example is the the Oink bust.

I think this is also like you allowing people to deal drugs in your home. You might not buy or sell but you let people do illegal business in your home. Do you think you can get away with it once the cops raid your place?