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> with torrents you have to do the initial seed from some public IP.

Seeding over Tor should work though. So although it's technically a public IP, it's also just a cut-out (from the uploaders perspective).



Bittorrent over Tor is generally discouraged. It's _very_ easy to accidentally de-anonimize yourself, and while the Tor network benefits from people casually browsing the Web to provide anonimity for others, large amounts of Bittorrent traffic would strain the network. Especially with a >400 TiB and quickly growing collection

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


> Bittorrent over Tor is generally discouraged.

Of course, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't technically work for the situations that don't have (safe) alternatives.

> It's _very_ easy to accidentally de-anonimize yourself ...

Using Tails would pretty much solve that yeah?




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