I can't remember the last time I downloaded a game that I didn't already own, or wasn't abandonware. Are there really that many people in the U.S / U.K that do this?
I think regards to music/films/tv, people have been downloading these for free for so long now, well over a decade, that to many it automatically feels like a right.
For a lot of us, we've been extremely lucky to live through this golden age of freeloading, but it was never going to last in its current form. There will always be alternatives though, like actually putting the torrent index shared in the hive. No ISP is going to ban every single one of their customers, and no government is going to shutdown every one of their ISPs.
You have to remember governments are made up of people to, many of whom would like to continue using the internet.