How do torrent websites exist if piracy is illegal?

It is illegal! But to search for the domain from where the torrent is being hosted is difficult to pinpoint. The uploader’s use a lot of resources to Hide themselves. read more

Torrents are just a means to download files. If the files are illegal or copyrighted, then downloading them is piracy, regardless of the means used. Pirate torrent sites are therefore blocked in many countries, but they still exist. Proxies are a way to get around the blocks. read more

Or better yet, like a bunch of links on a web page, pointing to different parts of a file. It's used for non piracy, but you only have heard of it as piracy-related since many pirated warez and fliks are large, so they use torrents. The sites can generally exist because they contain lots of non infringing data. read more