You can get a monthly VPN for $6.95 which they somehow converted to 34750 XRPs when I checked.  So if you received the 50000XRP chunk from the other thread you can actually use it as payment for a service.  Clever-- or at least moreso than most altcoins to date.

I hope they're smart enough to try the same trick at torrent forums (and that the VPN service is actually decent).