Why does it seam like torrenting is frowned upon

[idk5]

i have noticed that there a very thin line with torrenting and it seams like internet providers don't like you torrenting, and torrenting has a bad rep for being used only for illegal uses.
Please correct me on this or inform me on this topic.
thanks

[blackngray70]

Well in general torrenting is considered piracy.

In my experience the majority of torrents out there is pirated material.

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[UrbanBounca]

Torrenting is mainly used for piracy. Their frown is justified.

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[idk5]

true it is used for piracy a lot

[dezymond]

+1 to all responses.

How many times are you going to find a legit software or media on torrent sites? There are uses for legit torrents, but I'm gonna say 95% of them aren't and that is why they are frowned upon.

[idk5]

I like torrenting big files like linux

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[Heywood]

Torrenting is Napstering

[wlemammoth]

Torrenting is Napstering

Kind of a dumb thing to say.

[UrbanBounca]

Kind of a dumb thing to say.

How?

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[wlemammoth]

Well I think you are just feeding the trolls, but it was a completely different technology. Correct me if I'm wrong but napster used a central server and bittorrent is distributed, everyone acts as a client and a server, at least they do if they are sharing. But I think we both know that he was really trying to cast bittorrent in a negative light by calling it "napstering" when their are many legitimate uses for it too.