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Gideon, you yourself said that use of the VCR would not in itself be illegal, but daisy chaining 20 or so of them together to enable mass copying would be illegal.
In your arguments, you fail to acknowledge the fact that the torrent does not represent a single VCR, rather, it is more like 20 VCR's daisy chained together in it's behavior.
Your arguments are flawed in this respect.
We would allow the VCR to be legal, just as we allow a member of a porn site to download our content to their hard drive and other personal storage and playback devices for their pleasure. In addition they might give an occasional copy to a friend.
But as you yourself agreed with, massive amounts of VCR's linked together, or a similar device that allows mass distribution of content without proper permission such as a torrent or sharing type of site should be illegal.
The only way a torrent could exist legally would be to verify that people who download content from it have the right to do so.
In addition, a torrent is not a webhost. A webhost does not make content available to the end user. A webhost merely stores the content. Distribution to the public is handled by the owner of the hosting account. Thus the webhost is not considered a responsible party.
If you go to the website of any webhost, you will not find any content to download.
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