Just to be clear, commercial copyright infringement (i.e. for profit) is criminal, personal copyright infringement (i.e. you download it and watch it) is civil.
Or if you reproduce (does "reproduce" include downloading a copy, or only providing copies to others? Doesn't matter for bittorrent I suppose.) or distribute things worth more than $1000 retail value in 180 days (17.506.a.b) or you share pre-release works (17.506.a.c).
I'm pretty sure most "so-and-so discography" torrents would qualify for the first one.
I'm pretty sure most "so-and-so discography" torrents would qualify for the first one.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.pdf