This is a little off topic, but I always fear about being caught with torrents. Try to use Usenet! Some one might inform me that is a lot less safe, but until then Usenet is my method of choice.
Since the whole torrentspy.com thing happened and the court wanted them to track their users, I found a way that I believe to be more safe when I do download torrents. Plus torrentspy will not allow people from the US to search so it works to get around it too!
Goto
http://www.anonymouse.org/
You can browse websites anonymously and they traffic all of the data like a proxy server to your computer. It is slow, but worth the trouble.
Anyone think that this will help, or am I mistaken? Hope that helps someone