Ah yes, fair enough, well at least OP will be able to sleep well in their cold prison cell with the reasuring knowledge that their warez forum is still online.
Realistically though your probably more likely to face civil action over copyright infringement than criminal. Although it means you wont be going to jail it's actually worse for you because a civil case is usually much easier for publising companies to win. I don't know about in the US but in Australia only the majority of the jury need to support a decision in a civil case whereas the entire jury needs to agree for someone to be found guilty in a criminal case.
Realistically though your probably more likely to face civil action over copyright infringement than criminal. Although it means you wont be going to jail it's actually worse for you because a civil case is usually much easier for publising companies to win. I don't know about in the US but in Australia only the majority of the jury need to support a decision in a civil case whereas the entire jury needs to agree for someone to be found guilty in a criminal case.