Is BitTorrent safe?

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I'm thinking of using BitTorrent to download some utilities for my computer. i was specifically thinking of Visual Basic 6 or Flash,big things like those. They don't seem that big, however, in comparison to people downloading windows Vista of BitTorrent. What I need to know is: is this safe? As in, is this kind of fileshareing illigal, or questionable? Also, it BitTorrent safe for viruses?
 
BitTorrent is as safe as regular HTML downloading, so you have to check whether it has any viruses after downloading. Remember, torrent clients also upload at the same time that you are downloading, so your cap could get extra high. Also, sometimes a MB or two is lost every hour, so it downloads more than the file size.

It's not very accurate, but if you have an unlimited cap, torrents are very handy.
 
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