Whether downloading is legal or not depends on the country you are in. For instance, it is completely legal to download copyright protected files in Germany. Its offering which is illegal. Straight downloading is fine, but if you use a torrent client, by default you are also offering the file to other people for downloading and this is illegal.
What I just said is true for Germany, but obviously might be completely different in other countries.
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Originally Posted by TGS
What I meant was what the previous poster mentioned, there are lots of files on there that the uploader has no right to be distributing, and downloading those files is not legit. Of course, if someone has put files up there that they own the copyright to, or where no copyright exists, both the uploading and the downloading are legit.
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