Torrents : Legal or Illegal?

Torrents is a variation of P2P (peer to peer) so if you use torrents to send a file to a friend or neighbor then they are perfectly legal. And Linux uses bittorrent to distribute some of their operating systems. But if you use torrents to download programs, movies, music, or games then you are breaking the law. Although there is a .00001% chance you will get caught, it still doesn't make it right.