On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:12:40 -0500 grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [1] OB: bt traffic hurts the tor network. You should not use bt > > with tor. > > All traffic 'hurts' the Tor network. You should not use your computer > with Tor. Oh, wait, yeah, that'll never works :) > I think it's time to stops negging BT. There are other equally bulk > uses. And they'll all appear in time, whether or not they use an exit. > So try sayings instead... donate a relay, then do whatever you want. I mostly agree with this 'pay it forward mentality'. I almost use Tor for all of my tcp traffic. This includes watching cute cat videos on youtube, vimeo, etc. I'm well acquainted with the 'buffering' message in html5 video. I also use tor to download operating system iso such as Debian, FreeBSD, and the like. I once transferred an entire virtual machine (5GB) over ssh over Tor when I was traveling and crossing borders frequently. There are completely legitimate uses of bittorrent over Tor. I've talked to people who want to get their ISO of Fedora or Ubuntu from outside their country, so they bt over tor to do so. I'm fully aware that the tor codebase punishes me for doing large downloads over Tor, so be it. -- Andrew pgp 0x74ED336B _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
