[tor-talk] Vidalia problem

[Roger Dingledine]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:32:17PM +0100, Grant Mills wrote:
> I have a little problem...i was using like 2 months ago vidalia to
>download with utorrent...but one day it stopped working.Everytime
>i use torrent with vidalia working i get the "proxy connect error
>offline".Someone know if it is a common issue?Thanks

Hi,

Actually, you shouldn't use Tor to download with bittorrent.

It hurts the Tor network, and also it often doesn't provide the
anonymity that you might be expecting.

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea

--Roger