Re: Bittorrent

[sigi <tornode@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:21:30AM +0100, Marco Bonetti wrote:
> On Mon, February 16, 2009 22:17, Ted Smith wrote:
> > Yes, I believe the proper way to do so is to use Tor as the tracker
> > proxy, but conduct actual data transfer "in the clear". Or at least,
> > that's what I've seen on this list in the past. Would anyone like to
> > correct me?
> 
> it's also possible to run an "all-torified" bittorrent swarm (both peers
> and tracker) and more, see the instructions on the azureus site:
> http://azureus.sourceforge.net/doc/AnonBT/Tor/howto_0.5.htm
 
You definitely shouldn't do that, since the tor-network is not capable 
of such a huge traffic-amount through P2P with bittorrent these days. 

By downloading with bittorrent via Tor, you take away the bandwidth 
from the people who really need it for browsing the web safely.  

Regards, 
sigi