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Re:Show HN: AnonTorrent by Havoc on Sunday June 24, 2012 @09:46AM (#4153298)
While I approve of the concept in principle, I fear all the wrong types of people will make use of it. And I don't mean pirates...
Re:Show HN: AnonTorrent by radical_cut on Sunday June 24, 2012 @10:15AM (#4153348)
True, but this could be said about every truly anonymous internet service. There's for example a huge amount of incredibly scary and wrong stuff available on the TOR network. Child pornography, black market with every possible commodity, contract killing, you wouldn't believe (I did not when I first saw it).

But there are people's lives depending on this service somewhere in the world and that's why it must not be shut down. We may even need more services like it in case other parts of the world go to hell too...

With this kind of services or protocols we can either have no anonymity at all or we just have to accept the fact that this is what we pay for real and absolute anonymity. (And hope that the dangerous freaks will be hunted down and locked down in real world.)

Re:Show HN: AnonTorrent by runn1ng on Sunday June 24, 2012 @11:13AM (#4153472)
We will see.

I am very well aware of what is going on in "torspace" (some parts of Hidden Wiki made my stomach go inside out). If it will become that bad, I will have to shut it down.

Re:Show HN: AnonTorrent by thechut on Sunday June 24, 2012 @11:41AM (#4153510)
I think he is trying to make something that is open for everybody to use. Trying to control what people use it for is like Comcast trying to throttle bit torrent traffic
Re:Show HN: AnonTorrent by Semaphor on Sunday June 24, 2012 @12:12PM (#4153581)
Yeah, I'm sure he'll be proud of that in prison;) This is not about the morality of it but about the risks for him.

Besides that, it's not the same. People are free to use any other service while comcast is the gateway and for many the only choice.