When is it legal to download a torrented game?

 · I disagree. Whether or not torrents are illegal – uploading or downloading – has nothing to do with it being a torrent. It’s illegal to download or upload via any means including a torrent a pirated movie. It’s totally legal to upload or download your own files via a torrent. Bittorrent isn’t the issue. The files you’re dealing with Reviews: Answer (1 of 4): It has never been legal, but as others stated correctly, neither was it part of criminal law. Copyright enforcement companies (that make profits.  · Technically. But generally speaking, we absolutely advise against torrent downloads. It requires stepping onto some very sticky legal ground - you're sharing an unlicensed, copyrighted piece of media. Which is illegal. That means you can still get in some quite serious legal trouble, like a lot of people have done in the past.

Buy for $ at Amazon. To me, it's no different than breaking the street date on a physical copy. Sometimes, store clerks slip up and give paying customers copies of games ahead of their release. marshall · 3y. Egypt. our government uses pirated software. our actors use memes of themselves with clear watermarks from piracy websites. When I tell my friends that games and software are not free and you're supposed to actually pay for them, 95 % of them laugh at me and call me a moron. level 2. This is roughly the same thing that allows mix tapes to be legal. Long story short: Yes it is illegal to torrent a game you already own. No it is not illegal to own that torrent. Anyways the law is complex but reading up on it will occasionally get you out of a jam. THE MORE YOU KNOW! edit: formatting.

Hello, I live in Bangladesh. I know torrent is legal here since everybody download via torrent and nothing happens. I downloaded over 2 TB of movies and tv shows and copied everything in a hard drive. I will go to california for university within a couple of months and take the hard drive full of movies with me. If the video game publishers or the movie producer wants to hunt you down, they can easily do so. You might be thinking that they will hunt down the site but along with the pirated website, you will be in great legal trouble. So, if you want to stay on the safe side, it is always better not to use pirated movies and video games. No. It’s quite legal to download torrent files. BUT WAIT Before you run off and start downloading last week’s bootlegged theatrical movie release, you really need to understand why that particular download, and others like it, probably are illegal.