Man I don't know about downloading no more since lately I've been getting mad copyright infringement letters in my comcast email inbox. It doesn't say nothing crazy like getting sued or locked up but it mentions suspension of account or account terminated.
Since building my pc though I've been buying games more often and we kind of fell off of downloading. Only issue is I have dudes that want games for 360 since I mod them and downloading through torrents seems unsafe and nzb's don't seem to feasible of an alternative(incomplete files, no files.)