DieDaily

I should add, that I'm not flaming, I understand that your original post explicitly states that you are not intending to DL torrent-acquired data via Tor. But your original post is also a non-starter, if you think about it, so it LEADS in that direction. Let's say, for instance, that you used TOR with Firefox to gain access to a Tracker/List site so that you could comment anonymously because, for instance, you were banned under your actual IP. You still couldn't initiate a DL using TOR, since the moment you did so, your torrent client would give up your real IP and port. Clear? So the answer is NO there is no place for TOR in the torrent downloading scene, period. Magnet is as close as you'll get to tracker-free activity, and that won't really help with your anonymity...it will merely make the torrent scene more resilient to any situation in which trackers are being shut down by the authorities. Hope this is clear.

I'm glad that TOR explicitly forbids actual P2P data transfer, as it would kill the network faster than any other mechanism I could imagine. I trust uTorrent will watch TOR's back, in respect of this. I run a TOR node because I think it's the right thing to do. I'm sure there are various people in China and Saudi Arabia, etc., that are damned glad I do so. But if I thought for a moment that my bandwidth and CPU was going toward some Western punk downloading the latest Transformers movie, I'd be pissed. That's NOT what TOR was created to help with. 'Nuff said, I hope.