I hope you don't mind me asking this here, I'm doing so because I know you guys so I can trust your advice, whereas techie site are unknown to me (I'd be interested to hear of any trusted forums of ethical talented hackers if they exist).

Does anyone know how to torrent anonymously? My friend needs just one thing from pirate bay, but doesn't want them knowing her ISP just because you apparently can then get hassle from the ISP provider just for having gone there, and the govt have expressed an interest in cracking down on things like that. She is not using it for anything wrong, she just wants to be sure that she won't get any future hassle.

She downloaded Kommute, but couldn't work out how to use it with the torrent file she has to get the torrent. Can anyone recommend a good and simple anonymous torrent program that she can use to get that one thing off pirate bay please? Pirate Bay recommend Miro and BitTornado on the site, but they're not anonymous, are they?

She installed the Tor bundle (now her ISP shows up as California, is that the ISP of someone else in the network or an anonymous proxy?), but she has now read that you can't use that while torrenting. Help appreciated!

How about changing the ISP!

As long as you do not download something that is very new or very expensive, you will not receive a Cease and Desist letter from your ISP.
I use utorrent to download (very easy and small). There is really no need to be anonymous.

TOR is a network of servers that allow you to access the internet through them, masking your tracks. It is used for web browsing.

Thanks for the tips. She tried doing the P2P through an open proxy on Vuse but it didn't seem to work with the couple of proxies she tried. I'm a bit concerned also about how some proxies are authority (or maybe criminal?)'honeypots' apparently that spy on what you're doing. In the end she clicked the option on Vuse that said to go through Tor instead of the normal direct ISP way. It then worked, but not sure if it was really anonymous.

Tor concerns her a little, because Prevx doesn't seem to like it. Everytime she tried to enter details into a login Prevx would say that there was a proxy open that could spy on her login details and turned it off, even though Tor was already off both on the browser button and Vidalia. Who's to say Tor isn't watching everything you do? Could someone steal your details though Tor, or an open proxy? Computing is confusing!