Actually, the concept is to share files......like most weapons have the concept to defend, nevertheless they can also be used to attack.
In your specific case, besides that it was already pretty risky to download such a program from the network considering the fact that most programs (999/1000) incude viruses/worms and trojans, it is/was also unfortunate that the host of the file forgot to provide the necessary "armournition.......
Besides, there are no files uploaded to any server as you might mistakenly believe, files are hosted via the P2P clients and up -or downloaded from the specific computer(s) offering the files (i.e yours and mine)......
