Well, one difference is that if infringement _is_ committed, it's two different violations under the law for torrents, and one for HTTP downloads. Because torrenters download *and* upload, they can be charged not only with violation by using the content without permission, but also for distributing it (a charge with much higher penalties).
And another niggling thing: Linux is copyrighted. BSD is copyrighted. Every creative work made in the US is automatically copyrighted.) So torrenting definitely deals almost exclusively with copyrighted material. But not every copyright belongs to a total dick, so... ;-)
Torrents are definitely a faster download for small projects (and often projects hosted on servers which reside far, far away). The Blender Open Movie projects are a good example here. The idea that torrents exist exclusively to facilitate infringement is ridiculous.
Bittorrent is simply a way of efficiently moving large amounts of data from point A to point B. There is nothing about it that promotes copyright infringement, any more than just downloading something off a webpage though HTTP... unless you are saying that doing things efficiently is inherently dishonest.
Brian Cluff
On 01/25/2013 11:01 AM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for
purposes OTHER than sharing copyrighted files.
-jmz
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com
<mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single
location?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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