Around the turn of the century my family went from dialup to cable. It felt like a waste to not use all the bandwidth all the time. I had a surplus server running Windows 2000 and Kazaa, Limewire, and maybe more. I think I missed Napster. That was a completely normal thing among all my IT literate friends. My rig was kinda anemic. A buddy of mine had four 250gb hard drives. A whole ~terabyte~ of storage. And a liquid cooled AMD. I put a mod chip in my Xbox and brought it to school where we watched (pirated) Monty Python in English class.

All this to say it was normalized in the US. I don't think it is stigmatized even today. More like we had about a decade of streaming services actually providing good value. But now the product managers and UX designers have their hooks so deep in it that it's becoming unusable.

Same in Sweden. Nobody really feels guilty over doing it, and nobody judges others for doing it, because the laws permitting private copying blur the lines so to speak. But that said, by my feeling most Swedes would agree that running an actual piracy outlet of some sort holds an entirely different "sociomoral" tone because of really being illegal.

As far as I can tell it isn't stigmatised in the UK. Or at least no-one has ever told me I'm a bad person for copying stuff.