cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3207959
I was going to make this exact tutorial but when making it I found out someone beat me to it about a year ago so I figured I’d repost that one instead since it’s a bit more in depth. Also while in many countries people use VPNs to torrent, making measures like this less helpful, occupiers of Palestine don’t really tend to use a VPN due to minimal prosecution so catching them with this method is a lot easier than it would be against a country like the US for example.
We first need to obtain a blocklist of all possible Israeli ip addresses. This can be obtained from two sources.
- https://www.ip2location.com/free/visitor-blocker (choose peer guardian format)
- https://www.iblocklist.com/
Due to the nature of how IP addresses are distributed, these blocklists have to be updated, but that isn’t a huge concern for us right now.
When you downloaded the file for Israel from either site, it should look something like this:
Israel:2.16.36.0-2.16.36.255 Israel:2.22.233.0-2.22.233.255 Israel:2.52.0.0-2.55.255.255 Israel:2.57.228.0-2.57.231.255 Israel:2.58.33.0-2.58.33.255 Israel:3.2.42.0-3.2.42.63 Israel:3.5.56.0-3.5.59.255 Israel:5.22.128.0-5.22.135.255 Israel:5.28.128.0-5.28.191.255 Israel:5.29.0.0-5.29.255.255 Israel:5.100.248.0-5.100.255.255If you wish to add more nations to the list such as TERF island or the 4th Reich, then you can append the files on top of each other into one file.
Once you have the file, rename it with the
.p2pextension so that qbittorrent will use it. Then, in your qbittorrent client, go toPreferences -> Connection. At the very bottom you should see a section labeledIP Filtering. In the Filter Path checkbox, select your .p2p file. You may also check the box to block trackers as well.In other bittorrent software (hopefully you’re using one that’s libre) there should be a similar option for ip filtering.
There you go! You have effectively banned Israel from being your peer while you’re doing p2p transfers. This won’t stop Zionists from peering with you using a VPN or other undetected server, but this has done wonders for my mood.
Always remember to port forward and seed when torrenting (A non-Zionist VPN like AirVPN or ProtonVPN can allow you to do that). Only a Zionist does a download and run.
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From the discussion post:
I was talking on my part, don’t know about others. I’m a constant seeder (7+ years) and monitor peers from time to time or when downloading something. During these years I’ve never seen a single Israeli seed on a rare torrent, or high download traffic from them. I’m being completely honest, the only time I see them is when they are downloading something from me.
You should legally have to describe your political beliefs before torrenting so other people can block you based on them.
I don’t understand your thinking about this. Torrent seeding is done on a person by person basis. We have no way of knowing what the person thinks about what their government does or anything else. It seems, to me, strange thinking to group everyone in a country and make a moral judgement about them when, well, your pirating software and content. But that’s just my opinion, do it if it feels right to you.
Zionists largely support the genocide.
The ones who dont need tp be pretty cloak and dagger about it, and are all supposed to go to prison. If they can’t get around it, they’re probably cooked.
And im okay with collateral damage in broken bodies to spit in a zionist’s coffee. If you’re not willing to potentially deny entertainment to some hypothetical innocent to do the same to many zionist filth, fuck you.
What’s the point though? The atrocities committed are being orchestrated by the ruling capitalists and politicians in Israel, not the average worker who has no say other than the threat of jail for soldiers who refused to commit them, and even those that do are tricked by indoctrination that it somehow benefits them.
The only ones benefitting are the capitalists, not workers who might be torrenting
That might be true in russia. Zionists are overwhelmingly monsters. They rioted when a court said they didn’t have the right to rape prisoners. Mone of that class analysis shit applies here; they are no longer human.
It’s not a strong statememt that ‘i think you should die.’ But zionists? Im willing to fuck my seeding ratio up to inconvenience them.
The atrocities committed are being orchestrated by the ruling capitalists and politicians in Israel, not the average worker
The average workers for Israel literally go on the news to yell how happy they are to have a chance to contribute to the atrocities.
Regardless of what you think about political systems, sometimes it’s just that people are inherently evil. As the US elections showed us.
The average workers for Israel literally go on the news to yell how happy they are to have a chance to contribute to the atrocities.
First of all, how do you even arrive to the conclusion that it’s the “average workers” based off of a couple of people whom they might have grabbed off the street or maybe somewhere specific like a pro-war protest that admittedly do happen.
Second of all, the media is literally nationalized by Israeli government who have an imperialistic interest in the war, and maybe it’s a crazy theory but maybe spreading such propaganda and exclusively shaping pro-war narratives is part of their job? Like, if someone dissents and says anti-war slogans on state media, they’ll just arrest them and cut the recording out until they find a more aligned person or just script it entirely?
Regardless of what you think about political systems, sometimes it’s just that people are inherently evil. As the US elections showed us.
There’s a long and exhausting debate that can be had here, but I personally disagree strongly because this is the type of rhetoric and narratives that fascists spin, but turn it against who they paint as enemies. It’s the material conditions that drive human behavior and who they support, and things have been going downhill which prompted people to turn reactionary, start trusting the pro-Trump propaganda, refusing to trust “liberal owned media” and this is something that’s happening worldwide with the rise of far-right. Trump himself didn’t drop out of the sky and ruined everything, things were already broken enough for people like him to take the opportunity.
First of all, how do you even arrive to the conclusion
Sure, I can extrapolate from whatever the media shows, and we get access to many sides of the story (Gaza, Hamas, Al-Jazeera, etc), but in the end reality is the best empirical measure of itself. Israel government is still standing, the people have so far not revolted to assume direct control and stop the process of a literal genocide.
There’s a long and exhausting debate that can be had here, but I personally disagree strongly because this is the type of rhetoric and narratives that fascists spin, but turn it against who they paint as enemies.
Completely understandable, athough I disagree that the two things are linked That the rhetoric is misused is orthogonal with whether the observation itself holds true or not. I’m just not lying to myself about reality. If reality changes so that people are better, by all means I welcome it.
That’s cool, but this would end up blocking Palestinians who live in “Israel” as well. I imagine it might also capture the West Bank too, but even aside from that, there’s a lot of Palestinians living in '48 Palestine too. A good Palestinian friend of mine has an “Israeli” phone number for instance, and if she was connecting from back home it would appear as an “Israeli” IP address.
Palestine does have it’s own IP address allocation, its internet is structurally dependent on israel but they have generally been seen as separate in networking. You are right though that there is a lot of mixing in there and it’s not exactly a black and white wall of difference (but also ip addresses never really are). This is a good point to bring up, thanks!
Nope, you’re respondong to a defender of zios.
It is not in fact a good point to bring uo, based on that.
Palestinians living in '48 borders will have “Israeli” IP addresses. I know it’s an apartheid state but it’s not gotten to the point where they hand out different IP addresses based on ethnicity lol. Jewish settlers compose a majority in '48 borders now but Palestinians are still a significant minority in '48 borders. Not to mention that, like you said, Israel controls internet access in the OPT—for instance, a lot of the esims people have been buying for Gazans are “Israeli”.
TERF island or the 4th Reich
I get wanting to boycott Israelis due to what their government is doing, but you do realise blocking (the good-ish) half of America is gonna seriously hamper your ability to complete torrents? And if you think the UK is full of TERFs, you probably need to verify your news sources and statistical acumen. You shouldn’t always tar with the same brush…
Aside from this, on a technical merit this is gonna have absolutely zero effect - because in a torrent, you’re part of a mesh - those bits will instantly funnel through peers one way or another, and you’ll never convince enough of the swarm to have an impact. Presumably, the ‘content’ you’re torrenting aligns with your personal ethics anyway, and you’re not spreading hate. So why bother?
Complete and utter waste of time.
The terfedness is largely the (formal and otherwise) aristocracy, yes.
But also, they have no other cultural export of note recently, except for the brand of transphobia that’s been ravaging the world. So terf island. Ill stop when they fix the damage.
never convince enough
Then why bother arguing?
I’ve had obscure torrents that sat idle for weeks until someone with the data i needed logged on.
Terf Island, Fourth Reich
Amazing call-outs!
Allow me to add “Hallucinated Nation” / “Consolation Prize Nation” / “Nazi Campsite” for Israel, feel free to choose one.
All that said, this would largely depend on whether Palestinian outbound internet goes from Israel as well, which might as well be the case Soon™ if it’s not already (the same way blocking the Fourth Reich would block Native American outbound internet). But at least it’s a starting point and raises awareness.
Similarly relevant guide for Transmission I’ll need confirm if the file formats for the block lists are identical.
In Israel, do you need to use a vpn to torrent?
It’s not common due to minimal prosecution of piracy, If it was more common this wouldn’t be very meaningful.
when you see hexbear you know the iq will be low
