They used to be a lot worse but affected very few people. Now they're limited to censorship but affect everyone.

Back when Napster and file sharing in general was widely used to distribute pirated content, the music and movie industries liked making examples out of people they caught by suing them till they were destitute and had to pay back wage garnishments for life.

These days congress passed a bunch of copyright laws that allow them to essentially claim infringement on anything on the web then either block access or seize their domain. They've taken down all of my stream sites, MP3 sites, lots of blocked foreign domains that all offered the same services. So that's the extent of it.

I've also used emuparadise for YEARS to download ROMs and emulators. Now they've taken down their entire library of ROMs because greedy ass Nintendo started selling retro game machines for $90. I rarely torrent anymore its gotten so bad, ISP's will straight up ban you from their service if caught enough times and they're a monopoly so you can't get internet from anyone else.