Sigh...
The torrent thing is an age old argument, I used to be a big fan of torrenting until fairly recently I've stopped, not through any sense of morale dignity, but pure lazyness I would rather pay a few pounds streaming instead of wasting my time trying to find a decent torrent.

Downloading isn't stealing, stealing implies the removal of a physical object,downloading is sharing. And many people or niche genres actually consider sharing of 'copyrighted' material a benefit due to free publicity. I've spoken to many software developers who have downloaded software during their education only to then go on to purchase it during their professional life because they simply loved using it.

And you really do have to be careful about reading to much into the literature, not making judgement here but it's quite possible to get far to involved with theory and get little practice.