I'm sure different people have different opinions, but I've used IPVanish for about 8 months and I'm happy with it. It's not free: it's somewhere between 8 and 10 bucks per month for a subscription. To me it's worth it.

There are free VPN services that you can try out first. I believe BT Guard is one of the more popular ones.

That's not what you said. You said you are immune to ISPs cracking down on pirates because you have the WEP passwords for three of your neighbors.

That's douche behavior.

If I was an asshole I would do what coupons.com does an record the mac address and the name of the computer among other things.

So don't use a VPN that terminates in a country with those laws.

Here is a decent article with statements from VPN companies about the subject of log files and other related questions:

http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services...dition-130302/