If you’ve been torrenting in Windows, you are probably familiar with programs like PeerGuardian, which deny access to and from IP address ranges known to be associated with anti-piracy groups and other privacy invaders. There are a few programs that do pretty much the same thing for Linux, of which my favorite is IPlist. Just download the package, or source, and install. Fire up IPblock, update it, start your torrent client and watch the effects.

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