Legal Issues
Perhaps the most complicated portion of this legal debate is the fact that although BitTorrent indexes and trackers provide means to receive and send copyrighted data between users, they do not host any copyrighted materials, and no copyrighted materials ever traverse these trackers or indexers. Many torrent trackers have been the target of cease and desist lawsuits from copyright bodies despite the fact that a tracker does not actually host or distribute any copyrighted data itself.
A complicating factor is that torrent tracking websites operate in a variety of countries, including countries with copyright laws that differ from the country of origin of the copyrighted material, and countries in which different actions may be legal or illegal.
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