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A word of warning: DO NOT STEAL!
Now don't understand me wrongly: Of course most companies nowadays agree that using torrents and P2P to fetch software, music and whatsnot is good.
However, due to pressure from users who want the many benefits that copy protection and copyright enforcing provide, they have reluctantly added the first to their products and now endorse, obtorto collo, any ludicrous legislative initiative intended to protect the most absurd patents and drive out of legality anyone that does not pay them royalties without questions asked.
So you may search for targets through torrents and P2P networks, but once you find them, do not download them unless you are sure that it is legit to do it. Please always respect whatever funny legislation the political servants of the commercial powers that be have decided to introduce. Check the legislation and always respect the law.
So how does one know if what he finds is patented or not? In other words, how does one know if what he finds can be downloaded legally?
This is a very difficult question to answer, there are several philosophical schools on such matters.
Some say that the rule of thumb is the following: if something is on the web and you can download it, say a book or a music or a piece of software, then you may in bona fide assume that it is probably in the public domain (else they would not have uploaded it at all, would they?)
But be careful, and if in doubt, don't steal. Whatever you found will anyway always be there: everything that lands on the web is bound to remain available for ever.
A second word of warning: EVALUATE!
