I started looking at using any of the recommended VPN services. Every single VPN provider states in their terms of services things like:
Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability.
The use of peer-2-peer networks (P2P) such as Bit Torrent is permitted. It is the user's responsibility to not engage in illegal activity. Doing so will result in account termination with no refund.
Hacking, cracking, distribution of viruses, fraudulent activities, network sabotage, pyramid schemes, spaming, harvesting, phishing, and/or any conduct deemed illegal or unwanted shall be subject to suspension or termination.
Federal child exploitation statutes set forth the illegality of possession, production, reception, transport, or distribution of any sexually explicit depiction of children. Any user found to commit this type of abuse will have service suspended immediately.
If they had not logs, how could they tell what user is violating the service? For the previous statements, it looks like they are logging IPs and also doing active man-in-the-middle to users traffic. Otherwise, how could they tell if illegal activity is happening and by what user? Any thoughts?
That's just for the lawyers, basically taking any liability of the crimes you committed.