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PSA: Don't torrent over TOR (tor.stackexchange.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It doesn't make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you're going to leak your actual IP address.
Tor is a TCP only network.
While this doesn't give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where are you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canada? Idk the actual legality but I've been torrenting bare for nearly two decades and have only received two meaningless warnings from my ISP in that time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tends to only work in small towns. I never recieved a letter or warning until I moved to Vancouver, and then got one within a month

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not in a small town but no where near Vancouver. VPN is probably still good practice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I'm so sorry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't worry. They'll reply with their location once the daily power outage is over.