OP is talking about torrenting someone else's rip, not ripping from the CD that they bought. That means they downloaded torrenting software, accessed a tracker

OP is talking about torrenting someone else's rip, not ripping from the CD that they bought. That means they downloaded torrenting software, accessed a tracker and knowingly joined a swarm of peers sharing illegally distributed content. If your convoy "crashes the gate doin' 98," you don't get dispensation just because you happened to be driving a Chartreuse microbus[1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(song) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(song)