I don’t believe much in writing a long boring article where its not necessary. Articles become difficult to understand at times specially when it is about some technical stuff. Watch the video bellow it explains it all.
Important Note: Please do not download any torrent files that contains content protected by copyright act. All the files demonstrated in the above video are abide from copyright act.
HELL NO. You cannot be sued just to download a torrent. It is completely legal to download torrents in any part of the world including US. Its just that we all have to keep our selfs away from the torrents that contains content that is protected by copyright law or we should not download something without its owners permission. If you get caught downloading something that is protected by copyright law or without the owners permission, then YES you can be sued and there are good chance of you getting some jail time too. Its even OK to download a torrent if you have paid for such a service and you have the reciept to that.. Much of the content on the internet is not protected by copyright act as it is not cheap to get copyright protection so you are more then welcome to download something like that.
The US copyright act provide the legal ownership of a specific content to its creator. The copyright act can penalize anyone reproducing or taking it without the permission of the respective owner of that content. The person found guilty have to pay for the other party’s attorney fee plus he/she can face potential criminal sanctions including fines between $600 – $ 40,000 in fine. In May 2011 Big movie release companies like “Recording Industry Association of America” RIAA filed law suites against more then 22,000 individuals in the US for download movie “The Expendables” illegally via torrents.
Technology is actually now talking over the copyright act and some content makers have already sensed it. So now in many cases where there is a high risk of copyright act violation. Content maker themselves provide the content free of cost to the general public while they make money by the advertisement through that content.
