How to pirate stuff on my school's wifi network?

I'm in college, and my school doesn't exactly "block" you from pirating media. We have to bring our own routers to use in our dorm rooms, but we just have to plug them in to use our own wifi networks, (so we get free internet as long as we have our own router/network set up). But I've been told that if they detect pirating software on your computer, (like BitTorrent) that they can shut down your personal network. Is there any way I could get around this. In high school I used "VPN Defender" on my iPad to get past blocked games on our schools wifi, so could I do something similar with my Macbook Pro?

Thanks,
Kyle

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