Soundtracks Without Movies

Question by : How illegal is music and/or movie file sharing? I was under the impression that downloading and sharing of copyrighted movies/music was illegal, but then how are bitTorrents not illegal? A friend tried to explain to me that downloading is OK, but that allowing others to copy the file from you is not. [...]

Question by D.O…: What can be done to lessen illegal music and movie downloads? I say “lessen” because stopping it completely seems pretty impossible, like most other crimes. Having movie studios and music producers etc sue individuals thousand and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars isn’t going to lessen the amount of illegal downloads. If [...]