<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span>On Nov 4, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Nelson <<a href="mailto:nelson@net2wireless.net">nelson@net2wireless.net</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span>I do believe there is a benefit to Torrents as many of us can attest to,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span>ex: fast downloads of different Linux distros; but if your use of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span>Torrents is in fact legit then why use Tor for downloading your legal</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span>content in the first place? This doesn't pass the smell test.</span><br></blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">What about someone in a highly censored locale that wants to download a copy of Tails or TBB without "them" knowing?</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span>+1 for restricting bandwidth</span><br></blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">For the record, my exit node does limit the ports as per the reduced exit policy [1] and I'd happily open it up wide if I could throttle just the torrenting to a minimally-usable level. However, I honestly don't think it's realistic to spend so much effort to solve the throttling of torrents when those efforts could be better spent elsewhere [2].</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Just my 0.00000000002BTC</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Cheers!</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- <br>Kevin C. Krinke <<a href="mailto:kevin@krinke.ca" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">kevin@krinke.ca</a>><br>GnuPG - 851662D2 - 0x18C67F61851662D2<br><a href="http://kevin.c.krinke.ca/851662D2.asc" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">http://kevin.c.krinke.ca/851662D2.asc</a></span><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><span></span><br><span>[1] <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>[2] No idea what would be better deserving but I'm sure there's plenty of work in Tor-project-land that doesn't involve throttling hard-target services.</span></div></body></html>