I have yet to see anyone busted for torrenting media or programs in my region.

If isp's spent all that time litigating users, they'd lose customers. Mind you, with the obvious shift to no hardware ownership and mandated software backdoors, maybe it will change.

It's interesting: pro digital privacy advocates swear up and down that tor should only be used for whistle blowing or activism against authoritarianism, and pro media sharing advocates say that for is the safest way to share.

It seems to me, the more people are torrenting, the more tor traffic, the safer it is for everyone.