[tor-talk] Azureus cannot work with Tor

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> On 22 March 2012 12:15, Robert Ransom <rransom.8774 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2012-03-22, Michael Holzman <mike1248 at mail.ru> wrote:
> >>
> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I'm a newbie trying to setup a working Azureus
> (aka Vuze)-Tor pair.
> >> Unfortunately,I cannot achieve that. Reading
> the documentation and searching
> >> the Internet did not help.
> >
>
> > Good.
> >
> > Read https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea
> .
>
> Not to hijack a post - but I had some related questions around this link/post.
>
>
> Does this advice apply if your torrent client can and does use a proxy
> properly?

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: see below.

>  If so, why?

Due to protocol leaks.
Read https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO

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