The pirate bay, torrent and TOR

[Teddy Smith]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 20:18 +0200, Noiano wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> as you may know The Pirate Bay is being blocked in Italy for legal
> issues. It's just a matter of time before all connection to all the TPB
> servers will be blocked. Many people are suggesting to use tor+vidalia
> in order to bypass the block. It's a good suggestion but, IMHO, people
> care very little about just surfing thepiratebay.org. They want to
> access the tracker and download ;-) .
> Since I do not know the torrent protocol I wander: is it possible to use
> tor as a "proxy" to access the tracker and get the data connections not
> passing through tor? This would be possible if the request a client
> makes to a tracker contains the non-tor ip of the client, I guess.
> 
> Any idea is welcome.
> 
> Noiano (from italy :-P  )
> 
> 
IIRC, a few months ago someone set up a tracker as a hidden service,
specifically for this kind of thing. I didn't test it myself, but some
people reported success.
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