BitBlinder first appeared last summer promising free, anonymous torrent downloading. While it's still in beta, my invite has finally come through and I've had a chance to play with the program a bit.
The installer includes the BitBlinder client, relay server, SOCKS client, and Portable Firefox (with the TorButton add-on installed). The client itself is a modified version of BitTornado and anonymity muscle is provided by TOR. While it lacks some of the options of other torrent clients, key customizations are available in the preferences pane -- limiting upload / download speeds and maximum connections, for example.
The installer includes the BitBlinder client, relay server, SOCKS client, and Portable Firefox (with the TorButton add-on installed). The client itself is a modified version of BitTornado and anonymity muscle is provided by TOR. While it lacks some of the options of other torrent clients, key customizations are available in the preferences pane -- limiting upload / download speeds and maximum connections, for example.
Just like when you browse the web using TOR, there's a performance penatly. My Ubuntu 10.04 beta torrent transferred at between 1/7th and 1/5th the speed it did when I used µTorrent. If you're trying to bypass an ISP's filters, however, you're probably more than willing to deal with a little less speed. Slower is better than nothing at all and my peak speed did reach about 110KBps, which is respectable.
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