number one, you sure do seem like someone pissed in your fruit loops lately. It's not that serious dude, you're gonna pop a vein. number two, no on is saying that private trackers and peer guardian will 100% save you. but it's a hell of a lot better then just hitting piratebay with a clean install of utorrent. you give far to much credit to the ESA/RIAA/Publishers. what do you think they are going to do.. hop through multiple proxies hacker style? no they are suits. suits don't think like pirates. they run simple searches from thier office networks. they do not camp high end private trackers for months waiting for an open registration. they are more then happy to settle for the dumbass uploading unprotected to piratebay. there are plenty of targets available with out all that trouble. It comes down to luck as much as anything... but so does surviving a car accident. but you still wear a seatbelt and have airbags. it's just additional layers of protection. One of the biggest online piracy busts ever was Napster/Metallica back in '99 or 2000. something like 500,000 users banned and flagged and Napster forced to shut down. how do you think that was done? l33t hax0ringz? no, Lars downloaded napster and did a simple search for "Metallica" and turned over all the users who came up. Did Metallica go after anyone using Newsgroups or DC? no, because that's to hard. they took (and continue to take) the path of least resistance.