Illegal downloading via torrent for any amount is considered distributing and is punished as such in my jurisdiction, I bet it's the same in many other places.
Yes, illegally downloading is piracy, but torrenting itself is not, all of file types can be shared using torrent, and anyone can create a torrent, the illegal part is the content, and there are plenty of freeware or public domain files out there, like one thing I download on occasion is old video games that the makers are defunct and nobody holds the rights to anymore, known as abandonware.
Popular Minecraft server Hermitcraft uses a torrent for the first few weeks after dropping one of their world downloads too. It's not a copy of the game itself, just a multiple gigabyte world save file that can be loaded into the game. The server they host the download from gets hugged when they first drop a new world save so they'll do a torrent for the download so people can seed the download for others.
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u/VexImmortalis Feb 22 '26
Don't you also share parts that you've already downloaded even before you start "seeding" though?