Block peers by country
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GerryVegas
Block peers by country
Given the number of scum of the earth data lawyers in Germany it would be great to be able to set a country wide ban on peers within the client. IE block any peer from germany for any torrent.
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sledgehammer_999
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Re: Block peers by country
IMO it would be better if you used an external program to qBittorrent. However, I don't know any program having the feature you want, ie blocking by Country.
Re: Block peers by country
Peerblock software and ip block lists offers you NO protection!
You should rent a seed server and transfer from there via SCP or SFTP.
Or use a VPN, and skip the seed server part.
(you can make a qB format list by simply using a bit of replace and regex (sed on linux?).
but again, it's only a placebo effect, nothing else.)
You should rent a seed server and transfer from there via SCP or SFTP.
Or use a VPN, and skip the seed server part.
(you can make a qB format list by simply using a bit of replace and regex (sed on linux?).
but again, it's only a placebo effect, nothing else.)
Last edited by Peter on Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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ciaobaby
Re: Block peers by country
Always assuming the "lawyers in Germany" are not smart enough to be using VPNs or proxies.
Re: Block peers by country
In my opinion, the anti-piracy companies just rent servers from whatever providers (DigitalOcean, RamNode, Amazon, etc).
It's easy and cheap to automate.
1) Launch new server from whatever provider, download custom logger client.
2) Wait for command (download torrent x, y, z), download torrent (x,y,z), log.
3) Upload logs (x,y,z), destroy server.
Repeat. Since there are so many providers, with so many data centers, and so many ip ranges... it's not possible to track these.
That's just a theory. The main point here is that if "MPAA Co." buys a chunk of IP addresses, you block them. Congratulations, you blocked an office which got nothing to do with logging actual transfers. Big companies just buy IP ranges and use them up. But it's used for office buildings, server parks, whatever. Not for things like loggers and such.
tl;dr: it's a waste of time/cpu cycles/effort, really.
It's easy and cheap to automate.
1) Launch new server from whatever provider, download custom logger client.
2) Wait for command (download torrent x, y, z), download torrent (x,y,z), log.
3) Upload logs (x,y,z), destroy server.
Repeat. Since there are so many providers, with so many data centers, and so many ip ranges... it's not possible to track these.
That's just a theory. The main point here is that if "MPAA Co." buys a chunk of IP addresses, you block them. Congratulations, you blocked an office which got nothing to do with logging actual transfers. Big companies just buy IP ranges and use them up. But it's used for office buildings, server parks, whatever. Not for things like loggers and such.
tl;dr: it's a waste of time/cpu cycles/effort, really.