It is a legal requirement in Australia that ISPs record all your “metadata” which will reveal torrent activity. The bittorrent protocol necessarily makes your IP public to peers. Copyright trolls are known to leave bots as fake seeders and peers to collect IPs to mass report people.

Tl;DR: not a good idea

This maneuver may sound simple, but it involves an entirely new and unique code for which the researchers have sought a patent.

How to make your discovery worthless in a single, idiotic move.

There’s always package forwarding. I’m about to find out how bad an idea that is.

https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca191482/s3la.html

It does require a court order, but notably you do not need to be suspected of a crime.

Dont we have a right […] to not self incriminate?

Not that I’m aware of, but if you find otherwise, let me know!

They can compel you to reveal your password without a warrant but can’t touch your phone? Is that a state law?

Unironically, what is that kind of strap called? I have a (much smaller) PC begging for one.

Be the change you want to see in the world

And randomly crash.

Sounds like wine is emulating correctly!