Comment by throwaway894345
3 years ago
> If you want to bypass geo-restricted content, use Bittorrent.
I mean, if I just want to watch some geo-restricted show on a streaming service, it's a lot nicer of an experience just to use a VPN rather than having to torrent the show and run Plex or something else to provide a half-decent content browsing experience for your TV. Also, you don't have to worry about some copyright holder suing you (or more likely, extorting you) because you seeded 30s of video. Yeah, the VPN might sell your routing logs to some content company, but (1) that's unlikely and (2) is it even illegal to stream copyrighted content (pretty sure it's only illegal to provide it)?
Also out of curiosity, how adequate is Tor for bittorrenting? I would guess it constrains bandwidth pretty severely?
>Also out of curiosity, how adequate is Tor for bittorrenting? I would guess it constrains bandwidth pretty severely?
I've never done it, but it will have some problems: no UDP support (cannot connect to UDP trackers or use uTP with peers), no port forwarding (cannot connect to peers with closed ports), and some exit nodes might block outgoing activity towards the well-known ports (6881) though most peers don't use this port and instead use random ports.