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Gideon, it is all about intent.
if you intend to backup your software or DVDs movies, you would copy them onto local media and back them up. If you needed a duplicate of a song, you would burn it onto a CD.
Tossing a copy out into the ether that is torrent sharing is the worst possible way to back something up. You (a) no longer control it's location, and (b) have to way to certainly recover it. The intent of a backup is to be able to recover from failure.
Your intent to when you put files on torrent sites isn't to protect yourself, it is to bring enjoyment to others without cost.
Contrary to what you seem to think, you don't have the right to provide backup copies to other people without the express permission of the copyright holder. You do not have any right beyond a backup copy for your own use. If someone else needs a copy of software or a movie, they need to take that up with the manufacture.
Also, you have to ask yourself: If this is a valid backup concept, would you put your personal information, your bank records, maybe your bank account info, credit card number, and ATM machine pin number on a file and put it out over TPB, because it would be safe place to back up such information? I don't think so.
So basically, putting something on the net for backup would be a laughable concept, something that would surely get laughed out of court. Even if you can find software or a movie similar to what you had, there is no way for you to identify the pieces and know it is yours. Perhaps the version you download has extra features, or is a newer version of the software.
A backup copy is a copy of what you had, not something like it. You need to be able to locate that backup, you need to be able to destroy it if your license expires or you sell the product to someone else. Once you put something on a torrent, it is no longer in your control.
Basically, you are entirely full of shit. If you don't specifically know where your backup is, and you don't control that backup, you don't have a right to do it. Pure and simple.
As for tvtorrents, well, they are standing on the very narrow "we don't have copyright content, just torrents". I suspect if they start piling up stuff that the networks are trying to sell elsewhere, they will find themselves on the receiving end of a nasty lawsuit. I think they are only avoiding it by being a private tracker system. I also think they are asking for "donations" for download credits, which is another way they will get themselves in trouble, as it is commercialization of the trade.
That is as far as I will go on this. Quite simply Gideon, you are a total fucking moron, unable to understand the very basics of copyright law and it's implications. Perhaps one day you will actually produce something (other than the shit coming out your ass) that you will want to sell. Then let's see how you feel when you make $5 total and everyone has a copy for free because of P2P sharing.
Until then, GFY. You are a total loser.
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