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Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by londons_explore »

ksec wrote: post #27

My biggest problem with BT / Transmission is that they dont work well with DNS Ad blocking solution. As the BT client will quickly swamp and use up all available DNS quota for torrents. I am wondering if anyone has a solution to that?

'dns quota'? Are you trying to use an abacus as your DNS server?

Torrents typically don't do more than a few thousand DNS lookups - which isn't much more than a few people browsing the web.

And most of those lookups are just for showing pretty flags and country codes in the UI, and aren't needed anyway.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by hrbf »

netheril96 wrote: post #20

As a Chinese, I really need the anti leeching capabilities, as too many people here use Xunlei that only download but never upload. Sad to see that the maintainers skip this again.

It’s probably impossible to track that with any meaningful precision. Historically it’s the (central) tracker that implements the bookkeeping.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by BoxOfRain »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #18
artogahr wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Streaming services are increasingly going over cable TV route and screwing customers over. The age of piracy is back.

Please, don't call copyright infringement 'piracy'. Piracy is a penal crime that involves violence, theft of property and is often accompanied by murders. Torrenting is just copying data.

I quite like embracing the word personally, I suspect it dates back to pirate radio in the 1960s which in parts of Europe actually did come from ships anchored just outside of territorial waters.

Another interesting example of people embracing the pirate image was British submarines in WW1. The First Sea Lord of the day saw them as ungentlemanly and called for all German submarine crews to be hanged as pirates, this outburst birthed the tradition that a British submarine returning home after successfully sinking an enemy vessel flies the jolly roger! The last time this occurred was after the 1982 Falklands War, I believe HMS Conqueror to this day remains the only nuclear submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedos.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by londons_explore »

cassepipe wrote: post #19
ElCheapo wrote: post #2

Still no support for webtorrents, making it impossible to use it for helping to lighten the load of my favorite peertube VODs :(

Could you explain what it is why it would be nice to have ?

Webtorrent is a modification to the bittorrent protocol to allow it to be used from a web browser with no plugins/extensions.

It's built on top of WebRTC.

Webtorrent and regular torrents can exist of the same file, but crucially, at least some small percentage of the people in the network have to support both webtorrent and regular torrent to act as a kind of bridge between the two.

If this isn't the case, you might have a webtorrent user who has the file, and a regular torrent user who wants the file, but the two people can't connect to eachother because they're talking different protocols, so the file won't be delivered.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Barrin92 »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #18
artogahr wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Streaming services are increasingly going over cable TV route and screwing customers over. The age of piracy is back.

Please, don't call copyright infringement 'piracy'. Piracy is a penal crime that involves violence, theft of property and is often accompanied by murders. Torrenting is just copying data.

we had literal pirate parties as fairly legitimate political actors, I think the term has long been reappropriated

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by ksec »

londons_explore wrote: post #31
ksec wrote: post #27

My biggest problem with BT / Transmission is that they dont work well with DNS Ad blocking solution. As the BT client will quickly swamp and use up all available DNS quota for torrents. I am wondering if anyone has a solution to that?

'dns quota'? Are you trying to use an abacus as your DNS server? Torrents typically don't do more than a few thousand DNS lookups - which isn't much more than a few people browsing the web. And most of those lookups are just for showing pretty flags and country codes in the UI, and aren't needed anyway.

I dont know but transmission 3.0 era uses 200K+ DNS lookup with about 30 active torrent in a space of two to three weeks. I dont think I ever got to the bottom of it.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by yegle »

diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

After Netflix and others streaming services, I stop using Transmission. What’s the current usage of BitTorrent?

With the use of Sonarr/Radarr/Bazarr, along with a NAS and a fast enough connection, the last advantage of using a streaming service (convenience) is gone.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Shorel »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #8

This release is really important if only because it supports BitTorrent V2 spec. Transmission has a huge market share, particularly in open source circles. Lack of support for the V2 spec has stopped many open source projects from migrating their torrents to the V2 spec, because transmission clients won't work. Please support and use other open-source torrent clients, because Transmission's long-standing history of g…

Part of my Ubuntu post install script is removing Transmission and installing Deluge.
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