Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell
Torrents and copyright infringement is related, we can all agree on that. But I believe that pirating is related to a very fuzzy legal system regarding this topic and unfair treatment by the major movie studios &amp; music labels. I&#x27;ll try to explain as good as I can.<p>Being a european citizen, it is very frustrating knowing that pirating is illegal even though being a Netflix, HBO &amp; Spotify customer. Pirating is a much bigger trend in EU &amp; AUS than it is in the US, and I think that it mainly boils down to the US-based movie studios restricting and delaying access to content to non-US citizens. Some may think that this is acceptable, but I can&#x27;t see how treating one customer differently from another is acceptable just because they have different nationalities. I&#x27;m paying exactly the same amount of money as the next US-citizen for the content, yet I am treated differently.<p>One other thing that troubles me is that there are higher quality content available via torrents than via the legal alternatives. Having invested in a 7.1 surround system and a 4K 3D Android TV, you would expect that the legal alternatives would have content available for such hardware, but they rarely do.<p>Personally I think it&#x27;s absurd that the movie studios expect to be on the european market but treat those customers as second-hand customers, and I don&#x27;t understand why the EU isn&#x27;t doing anything about it. The EU and US relies on eachothers markets, yet music labels forces the Swedish-invented Spotify to restrict access to certain songs for non-US citizens.<p>I do acknowledge that some people are pirating because it&#x27;s free, but I don&#x27;t think that the general public does so. I&#x27;d be the happiest Netflix &amp; HBO customer if I had the same content library as my fellow US friends.