Is BitTorrent illegal?

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It seems so popular to download things like PhotoShop on BitTorrent. I use it occasionally for things like TV shows and such, but is it legal? It seems the BitTorrent site, at the least, would be shut down if it wasn't.
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Yes it is for the most part illegal, it is only legal if you download non copyrighted things.
 
Yes, and no. It is not illegal to own the software. However, it is still illegal to download copyrighted material via torrent. But, it's also nearly impossible to get caught downloading from a torrent. Much safer than a p2p network such as LimeWire.

There have been instances where the IRA tried shutting down a search engine, such as Isohunt, however, the actual site is not illegal. Technically, they are only supplying people with information. It is the user's choice to download from others.

Definitely not legal to download software like photoshop, but torrent is certainly the easiest, most reliable, and safest way to do this.

Mininova, torrentz, and piratebay are some good torrent search engines. uTorrent is a very good torrent software to use. It is very easy to find tv shows to download and watch.
 
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