On 8/04/2015 2:29 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 02:41:21 AM Robert Moonen wrote:
This is very true, however the designers of the Tor network highly discourage its use for bittorrent obfuscation, as that places a huge traffic burden on the Tor network.
My understanding of the tor network is that exit nodes are the bottleneck.
Use Tor for good reasons, not for evil. There are already people talking about Tor as being the dark Internet and wanting to shut it down. Don't give them more ammunition. Tor is essential for personal privacy and in some cases it can be a matter of life or death. Using Tor for bittorrent is very heavily discouraged by those running the Tor network. It is both unsafe and a very bad use of the technology for all sorts of reasons. This is an old post, not sure what is relevant today or not: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea
You can have legal problems if you run an exit node (a friend had his computers confiscated by the police a couple of years ago because of this). But non-exit relay nodes are less of an issue. If we had a bittorrent type service that used tor hidden service ports then it would only use relay node bandwidth not exit node bandwidth.
Yes, you wouldn't wish that on your worst enemy. Be responsible and be fair. Cheers A.