While it wasn’t legal (depending on where you live), the quality of the vast majority of the content was either 480p, 720p or 1080p.

So connect your pc/laptop to your TV.

They’re not monitoring your internet connection; they’re connecting to the same torrents that you’re downloading and then they can see all of the IP addresses that are downloading/uploading the movies.

Fair enough.

It’s exactly the same issue now with video streaming services.

Uhh, if you get malware from music downloads then you deserve it.