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aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
https://aria2.github.io/
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Is it possible to turn off BitTorrent upload completely? #854

Open g6ai opened 7 years ago

g6ai commented 7 years ago

I see that the option "max(-overall)-upload-limit" and "seed-ratio" control the BitTorrent upload. But to set them to 0 means no limitation at all, so I could only set them to a very small value. I wonder is there any other way to do this, so that I can turn off BitTorrent upload completely?

tatsuhiro-t commented 7 years ago

There is no way to completely turn off BitTorrent uploading at the moment.

gukoff commented 5 years ago

Has anything changed? Is there an option to do so now?

ealmuina commented 4 years ago

+1

Anon-Exploiter commented 4 years ago

https://askubuntu.com/questions/989780/prevent-aria2c-from-uploading-torrent-files

This does it for me.

slycordinator commented 4 years ago

https://askubuntu.com/questions/989780/prevent-aria2c-from-uploading-torrent-files

This does it for me.

It doesn't, though. It only tells you how to prevent it after the download is complete. The other answer points out (as the issue here is about) that during download, you can only slow upload/seeding.

DNS commented 4 years ago

You can't, same like other Bittorent clients. If you turn off the upload, you won't be able to download because there's no way the seeders/peers to know what piece of data they will send.

The workaround is set limit to 1KBps, and disables seeding after download completed:

aria2c --max-overall-upload-limit=1K --seed-time=0 file.torrent

LeeThompson commented 3 years ago

There should really be a way to disable any transfer types you don't want (HTTP, FTP, Bittorrent etc), obviously if you disable them all you have a different problem.

WolfgangDpunkt commented 2 years ago

This would be an existential feature. For example, for users in Germany, there the use of torrent almost inevitably leads to legal problems (if you download just for once not only Linux distros).

Boltzmann commented 2 years ago

This would be an existential feature. For example, for users in Germany, there the use of torrent almost inevitably leads to legal problems (if you download just for once not only Linux distros).

I do not understand the legal problems part. https://www.abmahnung.org/torrent-download-ohne-upload/ says otherwise. Could you please explain?