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Is it really just a matter of my bandwidth being hogged up, or more a risk of getting my IP address (range) banned, if not worse legal risks from activities bei
by noisem4ker 1y ago
Is it really just a matter of my bandwidth being hogged up, or more a risk of getting my IP address (range) banned, if not worse legal risks from activities being traced to me?
- immibis 1y agoYou can't get banned because no one knows who you are. You can bring down the entire Tor network. Probably not you by yourself, but if enough people do it they can.
- radlad 1y agoI believe OP was responding from the perspective of an exit node operator.
- immibis 1y agoExit nodes have to deal with much more severe things than copyright infringement. They regularly get raided by law enforcement for accusations of child porn and hacking, and have to defend themselves by pointing out they didn't originate the traffic. There's a whole bunch of tips out there about how to not go to jail for running an exit node (which is legal).
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- radlad 1y agoYes, an exit node operator will appear as the source of the traffic, which can have legal repercussions. (Personal risk.) But on a macro scale, the entire Tor network has fairly limited bandwidth and torrenting is a very easy way to saturate it. (Existential risk to the network / tragedy of the commons)
- mhitza 1y agoYou can use the I2P network for torrenting if that's what you want, as that kind of traffic is not frowned upon. Probably going to be slower than over the Tor network without any manual tweaking.