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PSA: Don't torrent over TOR (tor.stackexchange.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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  1. It doesn't make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you're going to leak your actual IP address.
  2. Tor is a TCP only network.
  3. While this doesn't give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Tends to only work in small towns. I never recieved a letter or warning until I moved to Vancouver, and then got one within a month

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