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PlatinumArcade2012-08-12 13:17:59
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PlatinumArcade, 2012-08-12 13:17:59

Search on torrent trackers - is it legal?

For example, here are sites that search for information on torrents:
Users themselves add links to games, movies:
imhonet.ru/
Sites parse trackers, give search results:
playble.ru/
cinemate.cc/
torrtilla.ru/
Are these sites illegal? After all, 99% of the information on torrents is pure piracy.
The same IMHONET has 200k hosts per day, has a page on habré habrahabr.ru/company/Imhonet/ , lives a full life, earns a lot of money on it. Although in fact - warez warez.
Or all this can be adjusted and legitimized by the “user agreement” (example imhonet.ru/about/rules/ ) and “information for copyright holders” (exampleimhonet.ru/copyrighters/ )?

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Puma Thailand, 2012-08-12
@opium

It's not legal, they just haven't been done yet.
The law doesn't really care about your user agreement.

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Vladimir, 2015-09-24
@Andrano

And I think it's perfectly legal. In the same way as it is legal to use Google to search for torrent trackers. What is the actual difference?
If the site (search engine) provides the right holder with the opportunity to send a complaint and respond to such complaints, everything is ok.
There are generally search engines completely built on Google's user search - such as tsearch or gotorrenta . Who is to blame in this case? The owner of such a search engine or Google, which provided a search for users.
Search is just a tool. With the same success, you can blame, for example, a power plant that gives electric current to a hosting that places a varsenik or a tracker.

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Ruslan, 2020-10-24
@msHack

Of course, legally and the torrent itself is legal
illegally downloading pirated content, for example, if you download a free program from a torrent, then it's legal, but if it's a paid program, it's not quite legal
Torrent is just a data distribution technology, and how you use it is another matter

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