transmission blocklist guide

torrents.md

Transmission Blocklist

The Transmission torrent client has an option to set a Blocklist, which helps protect you from getting caught and having the DMCA send a letter/email.

It's as simple as downloading and installing the latest client:

• https://transmissionbt.com/download/

After installing, navigate through the menu: Edit > Preferences > Privacy:

1. Check enable blocklist
2. Paste in: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/master/bt_blocklists.gz (peep the curls) (github)
3. Check Enable automatic updates
4. Click Update
5. Close

well in my case i noticed that the blocked IP count doesn't change in transmissiond with https://github.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/raw/master/bt_blocklists.gz anymore. apparently several redirects are now needed via that url to get to the archive and transmissiond doesn't handle this properly i guess. currently end url is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/master/bt_blocklists.gz and with this the blocked IP count is now changing for me again.

Just wanted to say that I've been using the former url for quite a while and it's been updating the blocklist weekly for me. I just did a manual update and the count changed from 453,xxx to 452,834 rules. This suggests the app is able to handle redirects for that url. But since you claim the latter url is more direct, I've gone ahead and used that one.

Transmission 4.0.6