Is the Government really cracking down on Downloading??

With copyright law doesn't it only say "It is illegal to distribute / copy this movie..." it never actually says anything about obtaining them.

As for private trackers, couldn't these have been set up by government? Or is that entrapment or something?

I've seen some suspicous users on dc++, they have all of the movies you can think of and when you download from them their downloads run at around 4mb/s (that's the actual download rate), I have a feeling they may have alot more honeypots setup than we think.

But then again, hundreds of thousands of people download from these every day, so are they going to arrest every user? Unless as has been said they just look out for the mass uploaders.

For ISP's noticing you are downloading say 100gb a week, I don't think they'd notice really, it's not as if you're overusing your download limit or anything, they just set you at say 1mb/s and then leave you to it. The only way I can see an investigation even starting on someone is word of mouth that someone is selling say, illegal DVD's, then the police obtaining one from the seller and then they have solid evidence to get as warrant and prosecute them.

The worst I've seen is people receiving warning letters from their ISP's / movie companies to stop and delete whatever they have within 24 hours.

Jam it back in, in the dark.