Peer-to-peer >

(on Wikipedia)

A “swarming” peer-to-peer protocol which distributes traffic among its peers instead of a central server.

See also:

• Downloading an RSS feed of magnet links

• BitTorrent proxies – A proxy will slow your download.

Requirements ∞

• Complete encryption.

  • Since ISPs are increasingly becoming pawns for the entertainment industry’s hate-on for BitTorrent. That’s like blaming a car company for vehicular manslaughters.
• Select individual files to download.
• Set/modify a list of trackers.
• Balance between multiple torrents.
• Mechanisms to stop seeding under certain conditions (ratio/time)

• Start on bootup (unattended recovery on power loss)

  • I don’t actually need interaction at the cli, a GUI is fine.

No I don’t actually need remote access, since I can ssh or remote desktop into it.

Blocklist ∞

TODO – I have an old one, list services etc.

• getBlockLists.sh

  • Make one large blocklist from the bluetack lists on iblocklist.com
  • john.bitsurge.net/public/biglist.p2p.gz
  • 2018-05-15 – Tested and works for Transmission.

Websites ∞

• The Pirate Bay

  • They are often blocked. Consider using Tor, a web proxy or a VPN to access it.
  • https://thepiratebay.org/index.html

• https://torrentfreak.com/

  • https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/domains/torrentfreak.com
  • https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/domains/torrentfreak.com

• https://mininova.org/

Down ∞

• https://web.archive.org/web/20220412013531/https://zooqle.com/
• torrentz.com
• www.btmon.com/

• extratorrent

  • https://extratorrent.xyz/
  • was https://extratorrent.cm/
  • was extratorrents.it
  • was extratorrent.ag
  • was extratorrents-cc.com
  • https://www.speedtorrent.com/

• Demonoid (ƊЄMƠƝƠƖƊ)

  • Possibly is/was https://demonoid.is/
  • Possibly was www.dnoid.to
  • was www.demonoid.pw
  • was www.demonoid.ooo/
  • was http://demonhkzoijsvvui.onion:8080/
  • Might be completely gone.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200206210549/https://arenabg.com/torrents/
• http://torsky.org
• http://www.newnova.com/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150406002111/http://btjunkie.org/
• http://meganova.org/
• http://mybittorrent.com/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190909060957/http://iso-tek.org/

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080328132421/http://www.torrentspy.com:80/

  • Shut themselves down

• isohunt.com

  • Meta site. Caught by the bad guys
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20130910034154/http://isohunt.com/
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20131017223756/https://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=335281
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20101227103122/http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=288201
    — hexagon.cc was attempted but never materialized.

Trackers ∞

• https://newtrackon.com/list

• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/

(a list is not kept here)

Strip out UDP references ∞

2011-08-13

*unsolved* – My desire is to strip out UDP references so that BitTornado will work with those .torrent files.
After searching for a while, I have not been able to find anything that works for me. Boo.

• GTorrentViewer

BitTorrent Software ∞

• Software > /tag/bittorrent-clients

• torium

  • 2025-02-06 – Project dormant, main website dead.
  • 2016-05-19 or earlier – Requires 229MB of dependencies (on my desktop). No thanks. I should re-investigate if their website comes back up.

BitTorrent Editors ∞

• BEncode

  • Not sure what it is.. one guy says he uses it interactively with IPython

Which I won’t test:

• Torrent Editor

  • KDE

• BEncode Editor — Edits any bencoded file, not just bittorrent-specific ones.

  • Reportedly works under Wine.