The original post: /r/torrents by /u/OldAbbreviations12 on 2025-02-17 16:37:39.

I turned on my PC only to see like 30 chinese clients connected to a torrent that I was seeding. Most of them using the malicious xunlei client and some other alternatives. I just fired up PeerBanHelper (also chinese software, the irony) and it banned most of them for a few days based on the rules that it has configured.

I read somewhere that they're using people's bandwidth for their own purposes like constantly streaming instead of saving something on their disk. I got angry because I leave my PC on to share some things but when my bandwidth is abused I don't like it at all. I was one click away of banning the whole country. There should be another more centralized way of banning these clients that the only thing they do is leech.