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"Trackers" are the servers that host the torrent files
Torrents are legal (or at least really light grey) because they're just text files that act as pointers to a dynamic list of IPs sharing the file. To kinda go with the_marq's analogy, it's like a map that leads you to a street corner. There are usually people on the street corner, and they can tell you how to get to the Blockbuster (which has a large ple of rocks and a busted alarm system).
Websites everywhere that ban objectionable content (including mp3 files) allow torrents. Except zeropaid...
Okay, just to contradict myself, I'll say that torrent files might not be 100% legal, but so much more legal than other p2p stuff. If your comp was investigated and they found torrents but no warez, I doubt anything would happen.
Sites like suprnova can survive because of torrents' relative legality.
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