IMHO Even thought the provider would log it is still better than not using one in a lot of cases. If whoever can see my VPN address, he would otherwise see my real address directly.<p>In that way he has to find a way to get the VPN provider to give out my real address. What might be possible with a lot, but for sure not with all of them.<p>Also think countries, my country does barely have any contracts with other countries for crimes like this. So they would have to use a complicated way to actually force them to give out my data.<p>In most situations we are already way over the realistic damage done in forms of costs to catch the individual.