US istoryans, pls comment about Torrent

[hobie]

Good day fellow istoryans. Kani para ni sa naa sa states. Are you guys using torrent for downloading movies? My gf is in LA and she's been using torrent for quite sometime now. Just recently her friend warned her about using torrent kay somewhat illegal daw and might put her in trouble if she keeps using it. Is it true? I know strict ang policy diha sa states esp. with piracy but is she at greater risk nga downloader mn xa and not the uploader who usually are the ones violating the piracy and copyright

[ChaosOrb]

downloading.....is still considered piracy, it holds true if you didn't purchase the media that you are downloading.

[junmar4]

Good day fellow istoryans. Kani para ni sa naa sa states. Are you guys using torrent for downloading movies? My gf is in LA and she's been using torrent for quite sometime now. Just recently her friend warned her about using torrent kay somewhat illegal daw and might put her in trouble if she keeps using it. Is it true? I know strict ang policy diha sa states esp. with piracy but is she at greater risk nga downloader mn xa and not the uploader who usually are the ones violating the piracy and copyright

ang nagkawat ug nigamit sa kinawat, pareho ra.

[dbmike]

illegal diay na? may gani murag dili kaau strikto diri pinas.. ehehe

[nissanss]

the downloader is as guilty as the uploader if it's a copyrighted material. i've read people get arrested over illegal downloads of music files. torrent is also detectable by the ISP and some employ throttling. at any rate, tell your gf to exercise discretion.

[2001orangess]

I'm from the states and i remember a when a friend of mine got a warning through a letter because he downloaded a movie. it was a long time ago and i think the movie was ice age.
at any rate, if i were your gf, than i would immediately stop downloading movies. better safe than sorry

[bahiista]

torrent is illegal mga bro kung naa copyright ang material...
pero sa pinas murag right to copy man gud ang copyright...

[hobie]

Thanks for the input guys. I'll tell her about it.

[AMD_infinium05]

yup dire sa pinay right to copy man mga tawo dire.... hahha.. mobile to moile,p2p, waaaa lingaw au ang sharing pareha anang lan party... applications, softwares and etc.

[CentOS]

When your using torrents, you're both downloading and uploading at the same time since once you've downloaded parts of the file, you're also starting to seed.

Dunno in the states, pero even here, naa may minor "policing" done. ISP's sometimes get warned when some of their clients are caught downloading copyrighted material. They get warnings from Film Studios (in my experience NBC ang pinaka strikto) and other institutions. I've blocked a few IP's na from clients caught downloading such files.. of course, mo block ra ko once naa na ang warning from the owners mismo of the copyrighted materials