If been torrenting stuff for a very long time in dog years or an extremely short time if you happen to be a Redwood and I've learned that most torrent sites are like The Lord of the Flies.. starts out OK then quickly goes to shit and sooner or later some guy is going to end up with his brains bashed in.

So the moral of the story is that you either have power or at some point you wind up fighting against it.
I'm fairly sure that's how everything works unless you're a communist and even then it doesn't.