This sort of question flirts with, or rather parallels the classic definition of insanity. With all the prosecutions, with all the FBI warnings, with all the propaganda on DVDs, with all the licensing agreements telling people over and over that copying and unauthorized downloading is theft of intellectual property, you still manage to come up with the question, "is downloading illegal". Well, you would have had to be deaf, dumb, blind, and living in a dumpster for the past 20 years or so, not to know that answer before you posted the question.

I suppose if you ask the question enough times, someone will tell you it's not. Most likely that's the answer you want to hear and it's also the answer you'll choose to believe.

But, you'll have to ask the same question over and over to get the answer you want to hear. So, the classic definition of insanity is, repeating the same behavior over and over, expecting a different result. Sound familiar?

So if I shoot myself in the foot enough times, I will howl with joy and laughter?

IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO DOWNLOAD TORRENT FILES...only the copyright content..it was designed to store and share your OWN files.

Perhaps, dare I say it, ecstasy.
I thought this thread started with the suggestion that copyrighted content was involved. Nero 8 is copyrighted, is it not?

Bit torrent was also conceived to skirt legal issues since no one person was transferring a copyrighted entity, only parts thereof.

The magic of loopholes. <_<

Another magnificent post by captaincranky. You need some sort of award, because this has book award all over it.

Wow someone writing a history report for class I see above posting. Kind of got out of control here everyone here! Off the point from the first post. Pretty much the answer is YES what you should do it SAY NO! Just like Mrs Regan told us all SAY NO but in this case to DOWNLOADING acquired software and media. It's a no no!

short answer - no it's not. But it is a great conduit for viri and the downloading of pirated software (illegal.)