On: Pirate Bay officially loses case

[EastSmith]

And I do it by buying Personal VPN [1], which is cheaper per year. Plus you get some extra security and privacy.

[1] http://www.witopia.net/index.php/products/

[dmix → EastSmith]

Are your download/upload speeds affected much by using a VPN?

I'm not that far from Witopia's servers (Toronto>NY being the closest), but from my experiance the added latency can be killer.

[EastSmith → dmix]

Well, I use them for regular browsing while I am on public internet access and I have not found any problems. As for download/uploads - haven't used them for torrents, but Hulu streams just fine. That's from Europe.