With TOR, you aren't distributing anything at all. You're providing a method of communication to use in order to get whatever information it is you're getting. You might as well say that a telephone line serves up phone sex calls; providing a means of communication is not the same as providing data.
The principle is still the same either way. You are providing people a way to access random arbitrary data with TOR, and you are providing random arbitrary people with access to data with torrenting.
This is bullshit. This is equivalent to saying that giving prescription drugs to random people on the street is the same as giving people a car with which to go out and buy it from someone else.
I don't think it's true. I've checked all the EULAs (and asked the mod to direct me to them) and I can't find jackshit on it. I think he was bullshitting to shut me up. :p
As far as I know, it's
implicitly true. The product as sold via Steam is not necessarily the
exact same product as sold somewhere else. You're buying a license to play the game through Steam, not to get every other port and distribution you can get your hands on. The Steam service itself also has certain restrictions which apply to the software you purchase from there specifically; have you read their service agreement? There's also the fact that Steam has built-in DRM (and whatever other measures of content control, supervision, and whatnot) that you would in fact be subverting by downloading a standalone copy, and that isn't legal either.
Steam is a service providing you access to software for a fee; by paying this fee, you do not "own" the software, you're paying Steam to allow you to play it via their service, on their terms. This is
not the same as buying the retail version of a game, losing it, and then downloading another copy of that retail version (which may or may not be legal, but is certainly at least justifiable).