Originally Posted by
Apathy
Torrents files and the the program itself may be legal to use and download files with as long as the file(s) isn't warez, HOWEVER, it's main traffic comes from people using it to distribute and download pirated materials and all of the main torrent indexing sites where you go to search for torrents are also full of said pirated torrents, so this is why most people associate warez directly with torrents.
Torrents also rely on seeders to get the best download speed, which you are not going to get if you're hosting the torrent by yourself, so I think it would be more practical and also because of the implications of using torrents if you split up the files into smaller sizes (like 200mb ea. or something) and hosted them on file hosting websites, after you got permission from the users you're taking resources from.