Torrenting is bad. Why? Cuz torrenting is being used 99% for online pirrrrrating. But is it really that bad? Companies and corporations cry about milions of losses because of the pirrrrracy. They say that pirrrrracy is a thieft. Remember "You wouldn't steal a car" ad? If not, here is the link(I will upload it here once youtube is back online in Russia). Either way this representation and representation that companies and corporations are trying to tell us is a complete lie. Why? Simple, lets take this page as an example. You, my comrade can click 'F12' and access site's code. Now copy the code and paste it in into your local .html file(Dont worry I wont sue you or be mad). Did it? Great! Now refresh the page. Text is still here, links are still here, everything is still here. So, you didnt steal this page, but you did the process of pirating this page. You copied the contents to your local machine and can distribute it without my consent, or hell even knowlege! But my site is still runnning and this page is still intact. Now, if you stop for a moment and ask yourself "If piracy isn't stealing and just copying then how the fuck companies count their lossess from piracy?" and thats a great question comrade, and answer is easy. CEOs or whoever the fuck in company\corporation just open piratebay, torrentcsv or rutracker(or any other local torrenting forum) and count every download as "potential sale". Is it stupid? Absolutely! Every pirate pirates because they cant buy content for multitude of reasons. Like: not having money to buy game or not having region based prices in contries with weak currency or not providing service in certain countries at all.

I live in Russia, a homeland of massive piracy ever since 90s. Everything was so bad that back in a day Dendy(NES clone that lived up until 2007) was most popular console. And every since cartrige was bootleg. Same thing with PSX\PS1 ALL, and I mean ALL consoles that were sold in Russia were chipped so games with Russian translation could even boot. Also good portion of PS3 and Xbox-360 were sold with compromised DVD drive. Why I talk about it? Because when in 2022 most of western services and companies left people were shaken hard, because everyone where used to buying stuff on Spotify, Steam, GOG, Soundcloud, Google and etc. Why? If in 90s 2000s and early 2010s this was a place riddled with piracy and pirated content? Answer is simple as bread. Access to services + Regional prices. In 2015 and onward Steam, Mircosoft, Sony and other big corporations recognised Russia as big potentional market. And started to give official Russian translation and region based prices. Here, 6999 rubbles is aproximately 70 US dollars, and most AAA games were sold for 4499 rubbles. Why? Because no one here ready to spend 7k rubbles aka 1/6 of their paycheck on a damn game or film. Now, I hope you understand that piracy isn't a problem of a user, its a problem of the service.

So, if you live in US or any other country with good service, why should you pirate and use torrents? It comes down to how torrents work. Lets take most popular and centrilised Internet archive. If anyone downloaded from there something bigger than NES game then you know how slow Internet Archive is(100-300kb/sec in my experiance). Its slow and since its centrelized it can and WAS targeted by capitalists. Which limits amount of content that can be preserved severly. For exmple newest films cant be stored on Archive's servers because it violates copyright law(But said law doesnt apply to AI's and big corporations that scrap everything, including this. Althouth its for another day). Here comes the beauty of decentralized network like torrent. In case if piratebay, torrentcsv or rutracker would be completely nuked, already existing torrents will still function without problem, unlike Archive. Also if you download something via torrent and doesnt delete it, you will seed(upload) contents of the torrent to leeches(users who havent finished their downloading). Which automaticaly makes you a server that helps distribute said files.