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Could be wrong, but the act of downloading music isn't what gets people in trouble, it's the uploading. When people torrent both happen, but afaik it's only the uploading portion that is actually bad.
This depends, but not because of piracy. If you have to bypass DRM to download the music, you may be violating DMCA §1201 (even if you are otherwise allowed to use the music).
When people torrent only a part of the file is being shared by all peers. Technically only the original seeder shared the whole thing and after a few seeders it’s a tiny portion of the file.
Downloading is illegal.