Guide to using Torrents part 2

The main difference between the public and private torrent sites are that one requires membership (private), and the other one requires no membership (public). In order to get a membership for the private servers, you have to be recommended by a member, so it’s really hard to get into those. Also, you usually have to be very active to keep your membership up; otherwise you will simply lose it. Along with understanding how this works, there are many ethical issues that have been brought to attention. Many websites that are public are offshore from the United States of America, and have every bit of media material available for basically free. The problem with this issue is similar to downloading music for free, from Napster or Limewire. The proper use for torrents is to use it to download programs that are legally allowed to be shared. The US can’t have the jurisdiction spread out to the offshore companies, so they can’t stop the downloading, but the user who decides on what to download can. Therefore, all this information I am providing about using a torrent should only be used to download items that are free and are legal to share in the United States. I do not support illegal downloading, so please do not use it for that purpose. So, now that you understand how torrents work, and the ethical issues behind the whole process, we can move on to explain the proper etiquette and programs you should use when doing this.