It's the other way around, torrents are monitored, downloads on webpages are not (unless they use P2P streaming)
Noja
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Australian government prepares social media ban amid opposition to privacy and free speech violation
Do you realize that lemmy is also social media? I wouldn't be here posting if I had to verify my ID, which is what all these age verification measures do instead of just checking age.
If you're in the EU, downloading without uploading is also illegal, just hard to track for the copyright firms.