The idea is that the MPAA or someone hired a company that executes DDoS attacks against torrent websites. It is in fact a immature retaliation. At the end of the day, even if the RIAA and MPAA are sometimes behind the times, they are enforcing the (American) law on digital rights. People can use all the backwards reasoning they want, but they are still receiving content for free that the distributor wants them to pay for.

If you live in America, sure.

I understand it as a protest against copyright, or at least the abuses of it by the organisations in question.

Rejecting copyright is a perfectly legitimate position. It's not immature, nor does it have anything to do with the means of "getting content legally and quickly" that are currently available.

Honestly, I don't understand why anybody cares about torrents.

I get all my music, etc. through upload-and-download sites like rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire, etc. and it's A LOT faster and doesn't mess with my internet like torrenting did.

Anybody else feel like we've also moved beyond torrenting like we did with napster, kazaa, limewire (well, most of us?)?