What are they cracking down on?

torrents

Why? Major companies use torrents every day. There are too many legitimate uses for them.

torrentfreak.com/the-pir...

Is that kind of what you are referring to?

yes.

exactly.

What about this? torrentfreak.com/the-pir...

You can't stop the signal, Mal.

Also, there's always the old ways of the force.