I guess I consider myself a gentlemen pirate. I never download torrents for movies, software, or music. I pay for those. I do download the heck of TV shows though. I figure I already pay 90$ a month to my cable provider, the content is mine to watch at my leisure. I work over seas 6 month out of the year and I keep my sanity by having 2TB worth of TV shows on hand. I use Utorrent and frequent eztv.net and occasionally thepirate bay if eztv doesn't have my episode.

I don't use any proxies or private tracker things as I haven't a clue what they are. All I do is down load them then move them to my removable hard drive and then delete all info from my laptop.