@vermaden

Great article!

The problem these days is that downloading torrents from the masses and from the "clear" network (public trackers) has become risky. Many have moved to private trackers.

@vermaden Incredible post! TIL about qBittorent able to search through a lot of various trackers — I didn't have such power with rtorrent 😄!

UPDATE: removed links to outdated blacklists — see the comment below

It should be noted that qBittorrent supports various blacklists in p2p format — so with the next small script some of the bad actors (distributing broken files, viruses, etc) could be blocked:

#!/bin/sh

# Download list to block bad actors:
cd ~/.config/qBittorrent/ || exit
wget 'http://link-to-blocklist1' -O antip2p.p2p.gz
wget 'http://link-to-blocklist2' -O badpeers.p2p.gz
gzip -fvd antip2p.p2p.gz
gzip -fvd badpeers.p2p.gz
cat antip2p.p2p badpeers.p2p > blocklist.p2p
rm -v antip2p.p2p badpeers.p2p
ls -l blocklist.p2p