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:
@Zotter try https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/master/bt_blocklists.gz cause that other url goes through several 30x
I did wonder if @Zotter has a point though, @engineeror . If it's true the contents haven't changed in a while, I'll update the gist with that warning information. I haven't been paying attention (or even using transmission)
@Zotter I replaced the URL in the gist yesterday when @engineeror pointed that out, I notice that you mentioned the original had one more URLs. Now I don't know if I should restore it! But also, I wondered if things get pruned.
well in my case i noticed that the blocked IP count doesn't change in transmissiond with https://github.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/raw/master/bt_blocklists.gz anymore.
apparently several redirects are now needed via that url to get to the archive and transmissiond doesn't handle this properly i guess.
currently end url is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/master/bt_blocklists.gz and with this the blocked IP count is now changing for me again.
idk if transmissiond updates automatically, so i have this:
# /etc/systemd/system/transmission-blocklist-update.service
[Unit]
Description=Update Transmission IP blocklist
[Service]
User=transmission
Group=users
ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-remote --blocklist-update
# /etc/systemd/system/transmission-blocklist-update.timer
[Unit]
Description=Update Transmission IP blocklist
Requisite=transmission.service
After=transmission.service
[Timer]
RandomizedDelaySec=30m
OnActiveSec=6h
OnUnitActiveSec=6h
[Install]
WantedBy=transmission.service
well in my case i noticed that the blocked IP count doesn't change in transmissiond with https://github.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/raw/master/bt_blocklists.gz anymore. apparently several redirects are now needed via that url to get to the archive and transmissiond doesn't handle this properly i guess. currently end url is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/master/bt_blocklists.gz and with this the blocked IP count is now changing for me again.
Just wanted to say that I've been using the former url for quite a while and it's been updating the blocklist weekly for me. I just did a manual update and the count changed from 453,xxx to 452,834 rules. This suggests the app is able to handle redirects for that url. But since you claim the latter url is more direct, I've gone ahead and used that one.
Transmission 4.0.6
Yes, "https://github.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/raw/master/bt_blocklists.gz" still works and the date changes routinely, but it doesn't appear the contents of the file have changed since 2022 or earlier. The scripts creating the archive are running, but it's unclear if there are actually any updates to be had, let alone included.