[Noisebridge-discuss] Anti-piracy / anti-Pirate Bay law currently in Congress

[Jacob Appelbaum]

On 09/27/2010 09:36 PM, Ryan Castellucci wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:43 PM,
> <travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org> wrote:
>> BTW, using bittorrent over tor was, last I checked, considered
>> un-excellent behavior by tor exit node operators.  I assume you're
>> talking 'bout just hosting the .torrent files on a server there, which
>> is fine.
> 
> Running bittorrent over tor is rather abusive but more pragmatically
> it would be painfully slow.  I was talking about running a tracker on
> a .onion site - torrent files plus helping clients find each other -
> eg what the pirate bay does.
> 

Yes, please don't bittorent over the Tor network. There are better
solutions if your adversary is the MPAA - try a VPN to Sweden for example.

All the best,
Jake