Hello,
I'm from California.
I've been downloading since before Napster was a thing. It used to take overnight to download a single mp3 song on a dialup modem. Back when AOL was giving out free CD roms at the grocery store. It took time to collect enough music to burn a CD.
I've been a mod before on download sites. I've belonged to a scene site or two.
It was a drag when Megaupload and all those DDL sites shut down
I've been struggling lately with torrents due to throttling by my ISP, so here I am.