A protocol can be used for anything. With torrents there is no one organization that has control over a proprietary piracy tool. That is how you reconcile it.

A protocol can be used for anything. With torrents there is no one organization that has control over a proprietary piracy tool. That is how you reconcile it. If you are sharing things you dont have a license from the creator or another license holder to share, it is copyright infringement. If you are sharing things you have that authorization from then it is not.