It certainly doesn't make you safe, but if the threat is a fishing expedition trying to get a few hundred or thousand Torrenters, the fact that they'd need a court order from a different country/jurisdiction might be enough to get them to leave you alone.

And a seedbox would work just as well for this purpose, and will result in much higher upload/download speeds and, in the case of private trackers, save you the costs of owning/running a PC on 24/7 to seed back your downloads.

mmm. amazon micro free tier and rtorrent.

Wouldn't Amazon stomp on you pretty quickly for this?

They didn't the last time I did that.

I had some dodgy stuff going on over at an amazon free tier, including; socks proxy, ping tunnel, Metasploit, semi hidden tor end-node, ctorrent, and a few other things. I also linked a 25$ visa card from a convenience store, so very limited traceability.

All they did was bill me for the bandwidth.

Some VPN providers explicitly state that they don't keep track of IP assignments.

If they don't log that then it makes finding downloaders much harder.

They explicitly state it? That's all the reassurance I need! Warez ahoy!

Yes, that is a fair point.

Nevertheless, I can't think of a way to get internet access where you don't have to trust someone at some point (except perhaps for Tor).