Torrent Piracy Legality

AFAIK, downloading or watching pirated stuff isn't something you'll get in trouble for. Hosting and distributing it is what will get you.

what are they going to do when people download illegal torrents to it?

Absolutely. I'm just asking because in certain jurisdictions seeding (illegal content) will lead to huge fines, and not mentioning this on the homepage might lead people to believe that they can safely use this software. This is especially worrying since "streaming" is oftentimes understood as a read-only operation which cannot be pursued by law enforcement.

Depends on your local legislations, but be careful that by default on torrents you are also sharing those files to others so you are also distributing stolen material, so it may have an impact on your potential "crime".

It's an interesting case.Most commonly used clients won't let you turn off seeding, but you can indeed limit the upstream to a really low value. You can also, at the same time, seed a ton of different things, preferably quite large, to saturate your upload and make it statistically improbable to fully send a copy of any single file.Now, based on my feeling and cases I've seen in my country I'd say that the judge would make a claim that the sheer fact of ma

You are mistaken. In many countries an explicit, legal line is drawn between uploading and downloading copyrighted material, and some allow downloading because otherwise clicking on a link might already incriminate you. What k___ is saying is that it's the illegal upload part that moves people away from torrent.

That still makes torrenting illegal

Similar argument to bittorrent. Using it is perfectly legal, using it to download movies is illegal.

Torrenting copyrighted material is illegal in some (democratic) countries.

How do you handle illegal torrents, piracy etc?