Dumb question : why cheating ?...

[CindyVer]

I think part of the reason laymen try to cheat, without really knowing much about bittorrent--is that uploading is considered as "bad". In the mind of the common populace, that's how you get caught. So if you remain a stealthy leecher who snatches and runs, your less likely to be prosecuted or caught. Which we know is rubbish and underminds the entire principle of "file sharing"

Hmmm ... I believe you should follow the news a bit more involving filesharers that get arrested. It's mostly people that pré-release things, upload movies before they are in theaters, music before it is in the stores, tracker-admins and people that upload and share files. Downloader hardly ever get prosecuted.

Authorities hardly ever prosecute against a guy who just snatches a file from a tracker. And in some countries the legislation even allows downloading, but prohibits sharing/uploading.

[Zseeds]

^ Can u tell me if its allowed to download in the U.S.A? But not upload?

[splicer]

^ Can u tell me if its allowed to download in the U.S.A? But not upload?

Lazy

I know that in Spain, my country of residence, it's legal to download copy-righted material, hence I've never received one of the dreaded letters.