Have a look at LokiTorrent's homepage (UPDATE: the page has been taken down for some reason, but you can find a copy over at MirrorDot). Scary! The MPAA's coming to get us! Well, two things:

1. LokiTorrent initially set up a paypal legal defense fund to fight the MPAA, collecting several thousand dollars. Then this comes up. Nice, guys. Very nice.
2. Actually, you can click and hide. I wouldn't suggest relying on my internet privacy tips if you're planning on committing corporate espionage or emailing around nuclear secrets. But it seems safe to say that if the MPAA needs to issue multiple subpoenas across multiple countries in order to punish you for downloading that copy of Blade 3 they'll probably elect to go after lower-hanging fruit. So get yourself a copy of Azureus and a SOCKS proxy; or better yet, download Tor and point Azureus at that.

Yeesh! My heartfelt apologies for the lack of updates. Catherine's been adjusting to her recent promotion to Associate Box Mover at work, and I've been running to Capitol Hill on a near-daily basis to pick up the slack left by a less-than-dilligent coworker. The limited technical energies I can muster have been spent screaming at the BTD folks that they're totally all cogs in the machine, maan, and wrestling with Jon and Paul's XBoxes.

Ahh, the XBoxes. You might remember when Jon and I spread the poor machines' guts throughout the apartment prior to frying their tiny electronic brains. Well, I got a reprogrammer and put the appropriate BIOS on the chip. I acquired and installed a ready-to-go suite of apps called "Slayer's XBox AutoInstaller" that featured dragon graphics. Then -- more problems.

This won't interest anyone else, probably, but I had to search all over the goddamn internet for the solution to my problem, so I'm writing it down here, if only to allow others to find it, Google permitting.