On Nov 4, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Nelson <nelson@net2wireless.net> wrote:
I do believe there is a benefit to Torrents as many of us can attest to,
ex: fast downloads of different Linux distros; but if your use of
Torrents is in fact legit then why use Tor for downloading your legal
content in the first place? This doesn't pass the smell test.
What about someone in a highly censored locale that wants to download a copy of Tails or TBB without "them" knowing?+1 for restricting bandwidth
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].Just my 0.00000000002BTCCheers!--
Kevin C. Krinke <kevin@krinke.ca>
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