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. (I use qBitorrent and it has an option for disable, allow, or require). 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. ![]() Also, often your ISP will detect P2P traffic and try and throttle it or block it entirely (Comcast is a major offender). ![]() 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. Anti-P2P services like Sandvine monitor BT network traffic for file sharing and issue DMCA notices automatically. However, you should really not be using blocklists as your main defense against malicious/anti-piracy forces on Bittorrent. ![]() I don't know how often it's updated, but the last update was in October of this year. There is also a regularly updated extension list at. Inside the zip file is a file called guarding.p2p, so depending on your torrent client you may have to rename the extension to. It's updated monthly and you can point your BT client to (if it supports zip files) to there to download it directly. ![]() now requires a paid subscription to use.
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