[beernutz]

Torrents themselves are NOT illegal. They contain no copyrighted data. At all.

[rtkwe]

It's close enough though that it's a pretty easy case to make for contributory infringement.

[mechanical_bear]

That certainly isn’t settled law.

[coldtea]

Good luck arguing that in court

[coldtea]

That's more like a drug dealer caught with 200 plastic bags of cocaine saying plastic bags are not illegal, they contain no drug substances at all. Sure, but most of the torrents they had there pointed to copyrighted data, and facilitated their download, which is illegal.

[phoneperson]

More like someone telling people who their dealer is, except the dealers give away copies of books for free, some legal but most illegal.