How come content on the official Bit Torrent website is free for download?

Question

And generally, are torrents legal? And what about all those torrent search engines?

Answer 1

Your not downloading the movie actually, so its leagal. its kinda like streaming in high quality. if you notice it doesnt take up any room to download after you download the torrent

Answer 2

Giladbr, torrent programs like uTorrent, Azureus, etc. only provide the communication via for you to connect with other people's computer. The files listed (movies, music, games, etc) are in those computers and not on the servers of the trackers, so torrent programs are LEGAL and also is legal to use them. What is not legal is to upload or download files that are copyright protected if you live in a country where it is prohibited. There could be others but the only one I know where is not illegal to share any kind of file is Sweden.

And as for the torrent search engines, they just list the torrents available at the moment and give you an update as how many seeders (people with the complete file and uploading) and leechers (people with just parts of the file and downloading) are connected, plus providing you with the link to connect and upload or download.

Hope to have made things a little clearer!