YourBittorrent uses automated software to search the Internet for host file information and does not actively oversee what is indexed in its database.

With a lack of oversight, the site hosts some torrents which allow users to access software, movies, music and other items under which are under copyright and thus illegal to distribute publicly,[3] though the files themselves remain on other servers.

Illegal trackers are removed by the site when a request is made by a legitimate party.

[5][6] In 2006, Microsoft sent a takedown notice to site, complaining about multiple files, including a “Windows-to-Linux-Migration” video, a Xandros Linux torrent, and a NeoOffice 1.2 distribution (an OpenOffice.org fork for Mac OS X).

The ongoing juridical procedures against other torrent sites like The Pirate Bay made one of the owners[who?]