When you put aside your fears on the reach of US-based agencies and what they can do to you for downloading movies from torrent websites, you'll find there's a wealth of old movies that are free and legal to upload as well as download. The "Public Domain Torrents" website is just one place where you can get classic movies of all kinds and some are not that old. I'm not telling you do to something you believe to be illegal; I'm just pointing you to places to go if you're not concerned about it.

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One of the reasons I enjoy reading Techdirt is because Michael Masnick continuously points out how and when the movie and music industries abuse the reason for the existence of copyright laws in the first place. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution states: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." The key words here are "limited times", emphasis mine.

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It may not be discussed as openly as it was perhaps a year ago, but piracy in regards to downloading is still a hot topic. How do I know it when I'm not seeing new articles about it splashed across the different news sites? It's quite simple. The search history of my analytics service shows it to me every single day.

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