So take piratebay.org. You can get movies, music, music videos, concert videos, e books, talking books, computer games and computer security programs, all for free, from that site, among many others. However it is illegal to do so in USA, UK and other countries.
Sweden, where PD is based, took the owners to Court. Their defence was that they provided a vehicle for big file sharing, which could not be sent by E Mail. Folks could load up business files for others to download.
They had no control over what the files actually contained. They did not make the files. The Court case floundered, but got a small victory. Most of the charges were thrown out. They are now awaiting an appeal against a money fine. Nothing much is happening and it is all in limbo.
So now America says that they have the right to stop, perfectly legitimate business ventures, from operating in completely, independent, sovereign countries! Get stuffed America !!!
BTW by downloading a program via torproject.org it makes it extremely hard to trace, who is actually downloading. A request signal normally goes out from your computer, to the receiving computer, which then sends you back, whatever you asked for, from it. By using this signal splitting program, your signal goes to Tor and is then split into six pieces. Each piece is sent, randomly, round various people's computers, worldwide. It returns to Tor and goes to the website from Tor. No record exists of an incoming request from you. Your ISP records that you sent a signal to Tor and not to a film download site. When the end of the line site receives the request, it sends out your requirements to Tor who then reverse the process. Your ISP records receipt of a signal from Tor. It can be traced through all of the relays, but direct A to B contacts, are far easier to do.
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