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> Nobody has the right to obtain copyrighted entertainment products.

Depends on the country, actually. In Poland, as in some other European countries, it's legal to download copyrighted content without paying for it. It's only illegal to distribute it without the copyright owner's permission.

>>badpun+(OP)
I am not a lawyer, but that is also the case in the US as far as I know. For example,

Torrenting copyrighted material is illegal because you necessarily share files as you download (if a peer asks for a piece) but direct downloading or streaming via HTTP or Usenet etc. is legal. Hosting those files via HTTP/Usenet etc is not though.

>>MacsHe+611
It's easy to configure the torrent client to disable any upload, so that torrenting stuff is legal. However, if the copyright holder sues you (which is what sometimes happens in Poland, there are law firms which specialize in that), you'd have to argue all the technical details of P2P file sharing to the judge, so it's still easier to use VPN in practice.