Microsoft now wants to go to a yearly subscription fee, where the customer pays a set amount of money each year (to be determined) and it allows them to download whatever versions they want and are available. Of course it is only in the works nothing official about it yet.
Remember you don't own windows, you lease it for $150 to $300 per a license.
now come on man, what the hell? what is the point in that? if microsoft stop thinking about money (like they dont have enough) for once stupid lives and sat down and thought how to get around people copying windows, then they would see thats it not hard to cut it by at least 50/65%, if not more.
And they way i look at it, i do own my copy of windows, i paid for it, screw microsoft and there pointless rules.
Sorry to rant but they microsoft do beep me off sometimes
Torrenting is 100% legal, and I'm pretty sure someone in Canada can download the latest Linux torrent... maybe I'm wrong though. It's a problem with the people using the torrents, not the torrents themselves.
downloading Linux is legal and Linux programmer let you download and copy it providing you follow the GPL