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It is somewhat questionable about 'illegal software' as that implies the isp watches your traffic and figures out what is being downloaded. Many torrents I'd guess used a bunch of trackers to prevent this type of censorship. The trackers host the peer registers for the session and if you know which tracker is being used, you could block access to that particular tracker site. an active BitTorrent session can fanout to a large number of peers and the parallel distributed traffic can run in the 10s to 100s of megs per second and consume significant bandwidth. My guess is some internet service providers intentionally attempt to ban BitTorrent due to the perceived high bandwidth usage.

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In fact, BitTorrent is used to distribute many Linux distributions and other open-sourced software across the internet. To allow/enable proper functioning bit-torrent use, you'd basically need to forward the BitTorrent ports to the hosts running it, another note is that BitTorrent use shouldn't be deemed illegal as long as legitimate legal files are shared. But if many of the peers are simply behind NATed firewalls (a lot of routers) and they do not forward the internet-facing ports to the BitTorrent hosts, the peer to peer sharing networks may be severely degraded or simply fail altogether. However, the BitTorrent client would normally attempt to connect the peers rather than only waiting for the other peers to connect. using NAT results in all connecting peers being rejected and hence degrading the connection fanout. it is by using NAT.īitTorrent works with peer-to-peer protocol and requires an open port on the internet / wan side to respond to peer requests.

There is a rather 'easy' way to partially block BitTorrent.