> Most pirating is done via torrent.

that's certainly not truth in many EU countries and one of the reasons is because downlaoding is legal, so DDL is king, heck even I pirate since 90s and started to use torrents just in recent years, until then was downloading all my movies/TV shows legally from DDL where are illegally uploaded by someone else

> But no it isn’t legal to download content that wasn’t authorized to be uploaded.

wrong, it's legal to download/stream video content for your personal usage and you don't need to care about any authorization, that's problem of the hosting provider and uploader, you as downloader are off the hook

check question 11 for various countries - Czechia, Slovakia, Spain and many other countries allow this https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/observatory/faq-cs...

Incorrect. You can turn seeding off. (Although that is not a very neighbourly thing to do) Also torrents are just one source.

Even when you’re not “seeding” completed downloads, the segments you have are available to other downloads. Many clients also have the ability to downgrade an downloaders ability to get segments if you are not reciprocating.