The author is absolutely right though, if torrent sites only hosted music that was legally allowed to be redistributed then that&#x27;s all that would appear. By your reasoning every search engine is a piracy tool, wget is a piracy tool, hell the internet is a piracy tool too.<p>Why is the burden on the developer to implement software to detect whether the work you&#x27;re downloading is copyrighted in your country when it&#x27;s the user who is in control and makes all the decisions.