14 DAY TRIAL // Oh, boy, torrents infringing copyright laws - isn't that a surprise? Not! Same thing as always, just with another name. I don't get it. Don't these guys get sick of it? Everyone knows that torrents are used to illegally download stuff! Nobody uses them to get open software, because you can get that from the developer. I think all torrents should be forbidden if we are to properly enforce copyrights.
People just shamelessly upload and download material that does not belong to them, cracked programs, games and all sort of files using torrents. But I recently read a material on c|net about TorrentSpy. They don't actually store illegal stuff on their website, but their searches will point to unauthorized copies of ?just about anything.
These guys have to be the worse - they have been recently sued by the motion picture industry in the United States for (you've guessed it!) violating copyright law. Now, what do you think the site owners did? Shut down the whole site? No way! They've just shut it down for the Americans. No one from the US can use it anymore. And that's because nobody in Europe, Asia or Africa bothered to sue them. Even if they do lose, they will only be deemed illegal in the US. This sucks!
TorrentSpy's attorney had stated for c|net that this is a wake up call to citizens and Internet users that their piracy isn't protected as well as they might have thought. I can't believe he said that, and that they're acting innocent when everyone knows how Internet piracy works and how this type of sites are helping it.
It seems that torrents will never be stopped, but in any case, even if they were - you can't possibly put an end to piracy and you know why? This problem does not start with the software, but with the people. There is no program that will force users to download something illegal, people simply choose to! If this will ever be taken down, this will be done by educated users.