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What is the significance of the changes in the Bittorrent Torify HOWTO?

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What is the significance of the changes in the Bittorrent Torify HOWTO?

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I noticed I can’t connect with btdownloadcurses through proxychains any more. Looking for answers, I went back to the Torify HOWTO and noticed that it had been altered. Where it used to explain about using proxychains to run bittorrent through TOR, which I used successfully for over a year, it now says that Bittorrent “uses a mechanism similar to TOR.” That was certainly news to me. How is the generic Bittorrent client technically similar to TOR in any way? I have always heard that the generic Bittorrent client offers almost no anonymity at all. Now I’m reading that Bittorrent and TOR are practically the same thing and it would be redundant to use them together. Seems a bit curious.

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