The software itself is legal (but I don't think it's because you paid for it).
The illegal aspect of file sharing depends highly on what you're sharing/downloading.
Now, since I'm no lawyer or anything, you should run a search in this forum with keywords such as "legal aspect".
Whatever I know was taken from these forums soooo...

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