The Pirate Bay has staff mutiny during relaunch

I'm avoiding TPB and any other "popular" torrent site for a while. Seems like everything has been seized and is a honeypot now.

What makes you think this, out of curiosity?

they front with CloudFlare.

they front with CloudFlare.

Okay? So what? I front with CloudFlare. CloudFlare has many, many, wonderful features. The best one being anti-DDoS systems, watching over spam and its activities, and caching of files on the server to help lower server load. Don't assume because a place uses CloudFlare that it's a honeypot. Albeit, I haven't really been paying attention to any of this crap, so I don't know what's going on and don't really care.

They hoard IPs and frequently give information without resistance to the FBI.

I'm sure most of it is legitimate, but I ain't bout that life.

Best method to not get caught;
cheap laptop/macbook/what have you + public wifi + daily trip to a different place + 1 download a day

Get a movie, never get caught.

Time is money, young man. The amount of wasted resources doing all of that shit is worth more than just buying said movie.

Best method to not get caught; cheap laptop/macbook/what have you + public wifi + daily trip to a different place + 1 download a day Get a movie, never get caught.

...Your MAC address is likely recorded in all of those places via the router. They could trace back the infringement straight to your computer's network adapter.

A better way would be to get a proper VPN service. TorrentFreak just released their updated list recently. That will help to mask your router's MAC and thus actually providing some anonymity. Mind you this assumes you're using Windows, which has some lovely backdoors that the NSA is using. Not that anyone, including myself, actually cares. So take anonymity with a grain of salt. Also don't forget about super and zombie cookies.