This is not the first time that I have published this information on the forum, you can surely find it in some old topics that dealt with this. Honestly, people don't pay attention to anything else but the lost BTC, although there are a lot of interesting details - like the fact that it wasn't James who threw away that HDD, but his girlfriend or wife (I don't remember exactly anymore).
I did not read it from you, that's why I missed this information, till today. Is this story true, who threw it away, only James knew. Did he fabricate this story, only he knows.
If you noticed that this source states that James asked for a monetary compensation for the interview, he obviously wanted to strengthen his story with new details in the phone conversation.
I believe that James wanted to use this story to get money from it. It can be true somewhat, and some information was added to polish the story more exctiting and attractive.
As for the use of Tor, somehow it doesn't seem to me that Satoshi would give away his IP so easily considering that to this day he still manages to protect his privacy. If what James is saying is true, then a lot of people would have his real IP address, and it would be strange that no one has published it until today.
I thought the same because with Satoshi Nakamoto, privacy is very important so it is less likely Satoshi Nakamoto did let some early Bitcoin miners, users knew about his actual IP address. Tor will be his tool for defending his privacy.
Self leaking actual IP addresses sounds not like Satoshi Nakamoto.