Replying to A few torrenting questions

Search barred and got really nothing. I may get a bunch of obnoxious responses saying its the same in America or blah blah blah, I personally don't know if companies look more here or there...anyways as the thread title states, torrenting in Germany safe? I got two notices from my provider back in america of copyright infringement, then I started using demonoid before it got shut down, and just wanted to know would I be better off or worse here, and if not, anything to help protect IP,etc. I don't know much about torrents except for click, click, and boom its downloading, so any other information would be useful.