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turn on suggestions
 Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. I assume you're downloading only totally legal software you paid for and are in no way procuring illegal software in illegal fashions.
You don't block your IP, you use a program that gives a different IP. I can't point you there. I may get banned for this much, but look up IP Spoofing instead of blocking.  You can't make your IP disappear, otherwise traffic would have no idea how to reach you.
One kind of IP blocker uses a blacklist to specify ranges of IP addresses that your computer simply won't respond to. PeerGuardian et al operate this way, as their blacklists claim to block networks from government, corporations, etc, that might be hostile to file sharing. They are far from perfect, though, and frankly if I owned an anti-piracy firm I could think of a couple different ways to stay off those lists.
You could also route your traffic through a proxy server. This "blocks" your IP by allowing the proxy server to send and receive data on your behalf, which then forwards it to you. Your IP address becomes the IP address of the proxy server. This is how I fool online stores like Steam into letting me pay in USD, not EUR -- I use SSH's SOCKS feature and forward all my traffic through my webhost, whose datacenter is in the US.
You could erase the return address from individual IP packets (this would most definitely "block" your IP), but this essentially means you can only communicate one-way and most networking requires two-way communication for handshaking at the least. All that is of course contingent on whether your packets will even route, as I have heard that backbone providers drop packets without return addresses.
Also, to the previous posters: is it really necessary to get your piracy panties bunched up over this? Nowhere was piracy even mentioned and the interest might be purely intellectual (or not, but who cares). 
Dark, your Steam changes from USD to EUR overseas? I first registered my Steam account in 2006 here in Spain and from the very beginning all of my prices and games treated me like I was in the United States regardless of whether or not I use my VPN. I had Steam on a laptop when I visited Tunisia a few years ago and the prices didn't change nor did any games become region locked. However, some of my American and Canadian friends got that problem. I'm curious (and thankful) that I'm somehow locked into a U.S. account. 
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