The Transmission torrent client has an option to set a Blocklist, which helps protect you from getting caught and having the DMCA send a letter/email.
It's as simple as downloading and installing the latest client:
After installing, navigate through the menu: Edit > Preferences > Privacy:
This one looks promising...
This one looks promising...
Looks like its updated daily so thats nice
question what does subscribing to a gist do?
As the author of the repo commented above, this gist is old. It's been fixed and is published now at:
https://github.com/sahsu/transmission-blocklist/releases/latest/download/blocklist.gz
You can see more, and verify the Travis CI builds are working (as of Dec 28th, 2020, of writing this, there are 352,464 rules added on the last build on today's date, Dec 28th).
I see that the travis has run recently and it has said that it overrode the blocklist.gz file in the latest GitHub release, but it's still a bit confusing in the GitHub UI... The release was from July, I cannot check the date of individual files in the release, so I'm unable to verify there that it has been updated. I guess I didn't know you could update files in a release without re-releasing. No sweat though as long as the file is the one being built by travis. 👍
True... And I just pulled down the list and opened it open, there is no date in it.
However, since I've posted the above, the numbers have changed already. Which tells me something is getting updated.
generate this with github action weekly. https://github.com/jinyuzu99/transmission-blocklist
generate this with github action weekly. https://github.com/sayomelu/transmission-blocklist
Great 👍，thanks
It works perfectly for me!
http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=ydxerpxkpcfqjaybcssw&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz
It seems http://john.bitsurge.net/public/biglist.p2p.gz
Is no longer working. If you try it in browser, it redirects to a DreamHost 404
It seems http://john.bitsurge.net/public/biglist.p2p.gz
Is no longer working. If you try it in browser, it redirects to a DreamHost 404
This is the freshness you're needing bro: https://github.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/raw/master/bt_blocklists.gz.
Similar number of blocked IP as john's defunct.
It seems http://john.bitsurge.net/public/biglist.p2p.gz
Is no longer working. If you try it in browser, it redirects to a DreamHost 404This is the freshness you're needing bro: https://github.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/raw/master/bt_blocklists.gz.
Similar number of blocked IP as john's defunct.
Fresh 👍
phew, i was still on johnny, glad i did a czech up on transmission. much thx @pleasejustgo
Thank you very much! @pleasejustgo
This one looks promising...
Thanks! More than a year later and it still works and is still updated regularly
@phunkyajunk
Thank you!
I obviously don't update often enough, as I only just found John's list is no longer available. I've now replaced it with Naunter's list, I really appreciate the link :-)
@phunkyajunk
Thank you!
I obviously don't update often enough, as I only just found John's list is no longer available. I've now replaced it with Naunter's list, I really appreciate the link :-)
NP. All here to help!
FWIW I wrote my own script to fetch blocklists from https://www.iblocklist.com/lists. I get the level1 list so I use the command get-blocklist level1 to download it. https://github.com/5p0ng3b0b/scripts/blob/master/bash/get-blocklist.
FWIW I wrote my own script to fetch blocklists from https://www.iblocklist.com/lists. I get the level1 list so I use the command
get-blocklist level1to download it. https://github.com/5p0ng3b0b/scripts/blob/master/bash/get-blocklist.
well that one crashed transmission so i guess it didn't like it. probably because it expects an archive
FWIW I wrote my own script to fetch blocklists from https://www.iblocklist.com/lists. I get the level1 list so I use the command
get-blocklist level1to download it. https://github.com/5p0ng3b0b/scripts/blob/master/bash/get-blocklist.
@5p0ng3b0b: Tried your script out but got this error:
% ./get-blocklist all
sed: illegal option -- z
usage: sed script [-Ealnru] [-i extension] [file ...]
sed [-Ealnu] [-i extension] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...]
sed: illegal option -- z
usage: sed script [-Ealnru] [-i extension] [file ...]
sed [-Ealnu] [-i extension] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...]
sed: illegal option -- z
usage: sed script [-Ealnru] [-i extension] [file ...]
sed [-Ealnu] [-i extension] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...]Update:
OK, easy fix. sed on Mac doesn't support -z, so install GNU sed instead:
brew install gnu-sedand replace all 7 occurrences of sed in the script with gsed. Working perfectly.
@fredngo. Commands and their options can vary from distro to distro. The script was written and tested in Windows Debian WSL, then uploaded to the openwrt device it was meant for. ls -l $(which sed) on the device showed a symlink to busybox thus requiring the full sed to be installed.
iblocklist.com now requires a paid subscription to use. You can use the emule block at https://www.emule-security.org/. It's updated monthly and you can point your BT client to http://upd.emule-security.org/ipfilter.zip (if it supports zip files) to there to download it directly. Inside the zip file is a file called guarding.p2p, so depending on your torrent client you may have to rename the extension to .dat, or .txt. There is also a regularly updated extension list at https://www.wael.name/other/best-blocklist/. He provides a version as a .dat, .txt, or .p2p. I don't know how often it's updated, but the last update was in October of this year.
However, you should really not be using blocklists as your main defense against malicious/anti-piracy forces on Bittorrent. Anti-P2P services like Sandvine monitor BT network traffic for file sharing and issue DMCA notices automatically. They buy up HUGE blocks of hundreds of thousands of IP addresses that are completely random, so there is no way an IP block list can keep up with services like this. Also, often your ISP will detect P2P traffic and try and throttle it or block it entirely (Comcast is a major offender). Enabling encryption can help block simple traffic shaping methods, but hardly anyone has it enabled (I always recommend you set encryption to "Allow Encryption", but don't require it, or you'll never find any peers. (I use qBitorrent and it has an option for disable, allow, or require).
There used to be a lot of tools that would allow you to see if your ISP was intercepting your traffic, but it looks like they've all shut down. There was one available from Measurement Labs that was called Glasnost that would do it (the source code is still available if you feel like building your own copy), and the EFF had a tool called Switzerland that would test as well, but alas it too has been discontinued - although you can still download and install it on a *nix machine.
You should really use a VPN. You can use WindScribe which offers 10GB free per month, but I just pay and it comes out to $4/mo if you pay for a year. It's also recommended by TorrentFreak as they do not log data and don't response to DMCA requests or law enforcement. Once you have a paid subscription you can use unlimited data on as many devices as you want. It even has a browser plugin so you can just connect to the VPN from within the that browser and they have servers all over the world. You don't have to switch to a European server to torrent, you can just use "Best location" and it will connect you to the closest server to you. I can have it running on my PC, my phone, and they even have an app for FireTV and Roku (not sure about AppleTV, GoogleTV, Chomecast,etc) so I can watch British Netflix right from my TV without any complicated setup. It comes with a fully built in customizable firewall.
They use AES-256 cipher with SHA512 auth and a 4096-bit RSA key with multiple ways to connect incase your ISP is picky including OpenVPN, IKEv2, WireGuard, SOCKS, UDP, TCP and a Stealth function if you're in some super restrictive country like China or something.
There are other services like a Seedbox, and here's another article from Torrent Freak Reviewing Seedbox Providers. I also came across a subscription service called ZbigZ which is a cloud based Torrent downloader and will connect to the Bittorrent Network, download your torrents for you, then you just download them off their website. I didn't really compare their pricing models or anything though, so I would say a VPN or Seedbox would be best for most users.
Finally, you could use the anonymous network like I2P to connect to Bittorrent (qBitorrent has this built in and it's called "anonymous mode") but you can set it up manually with instructions from here: https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent. However, it's going to be EXTREMELY slow to download your torrents as there are not that many people actively using it. And please don't use TOR for Bittorrent, it just wastes TOR's network bandwidth that regular people use.
Hope that helps,
pogue
I have never had an issue using this list without registering:
http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz
I have never had an issue using this list without registering: http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz
Thanks for this. Still working as of this writing...
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this list, I am grateful for your efforts.
Also found this one
https://mirror.codebucket.de/transmission/blocklist.p2p.gz
(As reported here)
https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?t=20466
This seems to work quite well: https://github.com/fonic/ipfilter
Only downside is that you need a server to provide the file as Transmission still hasn't implemented support for local blocklist files. I put the script on my NAS, which generates the block list and then serves it to local clients via HTTP. Works perfectly thus far.
here is something i hacked together using the iblocklist.com list. of course i ended up registering to iblocklist.com to get this to work. replace with your own custom url they provide you based on your selection etc... also worth noting i run transmission in a docker and extract the blacklist file to my container config / blacklists folder then restart the container for it to read it on startup. then i just cron the below script weekly.
`#!/bin/bash
URL='http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=xyz&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz&username=meh&pin=1234'
OUTPUT_DIR='/mnt/nfs/swarm/dockervolumes/transmission/blocklists'
OUTPUT_FILE='blocklist.gz'
EXTRACTED_FILE='blocklist'
DOCKER_CONTAINER='transmission'
wget -O $OUTPUT_FILE $URL
gunzip -f $OUTPUT_FILE
mv $EXTRACTED_FILE $OUTPUT_DIR/$EXTRACTED_FILE
docker restart $DOCKER_CONTAINER
echo "Blocklist updated and Docker container restarted successfully."`
in September 2024, this link https://github.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/raw/master/bt_blocklists.gz still works. Thank you!
That's also outdated by five months. Do you know how long it takes for a Dynamic IP address to change, at least in Canada?
12 days.