Distributed hash tables (DHTs)
affects the amount of people that connect to any torrent you are ul/dl. it is helpful if your on a public site because it searches for other seeders on other public trackers with the same file you are downloading. say you are downloading a movie torrent off of torrentleech(a Private site) and since your DHT is set to on it enables other people not a part of torrentleech to connect to that torrent and leech off of you and since that person does not have an account their you basically are giving that person the file and sharing private tracker material on public trackers. This is not only against the rules/cheating but can compremize your safety and others safety since the person can see your IP!
so you can see with DHT off it improves your overall safety because it only connects to that trackers users and no one else!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
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