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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.
Write it on their github maybe? Also I would be interested, how many people there use a VPN for torrents?
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 ?
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'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.
Also, why would you have a DNS quota? I guess some DNS blocker service like NextDNS? Either pay them the money, put a local cache on your torrent client (or use a pihole with blocklists), or have the machine with the torrent client use another DNS server.
I haven't used torrent in a long time. Does it have any other usecase than piracy?
Linux isos are frequently pointed out as a use-case. I've seen it used for distributing neural network weights recently (stable diffusion and others). Rainbow tables and password lists too: https://freerainbowtables.com/
I have used it to efficiently distribute big files (disk images) over hundreds of computers in LANs. Computers on local switches can exchange data with each other, and computers can come and go on the network.
After Netflix and others streaming services, I stop using Transmission. What’s the current usage of BitTorrent?
There are 200,000 movies, and Netflix and others catalogue 2000 of them. If you think of a movie to watch there’s literally 1% chance that it will be available for streaming.
I have almost never watched a movie I seeked out on the streamers. It’s the other way round, the streamers offer me some movies and if I’m interested I watch it. But their catalogues are laughably small. Completely incomparable to the music streaming catalogues which are really vast.
When I first came to Linux I adopted Transmission. It seemed less featureful than others but now I like its simplicity, does everything it needs and it is also very reliable. It is not very known but there actually is a transmission-cli for common torrent operations that may come in handy some time.
It's a great piece of software. I'm running a web remote v2.92 on an rpi with simple basic auth protection, and it has been working flawlessly for years now.
It was quite an ordeal to set up before there were DD-WRT builds where it was integrated into the build.
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Impossible to track with 100% accuracy, yes. But not completely meaningless to do some basic tracking. A torrent client could implement some tracking on their own, where they keep track of seen clients and keep track how much been uploaded vs downloaded from them (effectively ratio per client) and upload slower to clients you've never encountered that have been uploading.
How would your client know what other clients have uploaded to other clients?
The important part is to keep track of what's happening with your own connection to others, not what other peers are doing.
Still no support for webtorrents, making it impossible to use it for helping to lighten the load of my favorite peertube VODs :(
Seems like that libtorrent support for webtorrent would be helpful for that. That was done recently in https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123 , merged to master, but hasn't been released yet. Per the master changelog, that should be soon, I guess... https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/blob/master/ChangeLog