Everything CatBus said is true, KilroyMcFadden.

My own 2c is that if you want to be a bit safer, pay $5 for a 3-day account on usenetserver.com, download BinReader and enable SSL encryption, and then grab as many fan-films from Usenet as you want. (NZB.cc and NZBClub.com are great places to search for and download NZBs.)

BinReader is a lot easier to setup than most BitTorrent clients and with SSL encryption it's nearly-impossible to figure out what you downloaded by just MITM'ing on the wire. Plus, there's no seeding required (Usenet is centralized rather than p2p) and the speeds are almost-always faster than what you can get with most private BitTorrent trackers. I get ~7MiB/s down with my usenetserver.com account.

Hell, my wife downloads stuff from Usenet everyday and she's not "technical".