The key part of my analogy is "that I knew would burgle it". It's exactly like being an accessory to a crime. Drive a getaway car and you're not going to be able to use "hey, driving is completely legal, you can't charge me!"
.torrents themselves are perfectly fine, just like knives. I'm not making the argument that the object should be banned. But if a frothing hooligan runs up and asks for your knife because he's going to stab that guy over there, it's pretty clear that if you hand it over you've facilitated a crime.
So it's not the innate nature of the .torrents themselves, but the use of them as a nexus to set people up with illegal content. Like being a middleman selling stolen property, perhaps. You didn't steal it, but you did make it available.
.torrents themselves are perfectly fine, just like knives. I'm not making the argument that the object should be banned. But if a frothing hooligan runs up and asks for your knife because he's going to stab that guy over there, it's pretty clear that if you hand it over you've facilitated a crime.
So it's not the innate nature of the .torrents themselves, but the use of them as a nexus to set people up with illegal content. Like being a middleman selling stolen property, perhaps. You didn't steal it, but you did make it available.