Raspberry Pi Torrentbox

Maybe I'm getting old, but I still use torrents a lot. It started when I was in college, I liked having all content I could imaging for free. After that I was mostly annoyed by having to many dvd-boxes and books on the shelves so torrents where a practical solution in the spatial domain.

Despite all streaming services available, torrents still have a function. There is no censorship, and as long as people want to share something valuable no corporate directive can make something obsolete.

I notice torrents are in strong decline, for lots of content only a few seeds are available.

So, let's keep independent content available for all free spirits, and let's create an always-on torrentbox!

There are some tutorials online, but most of them are hard to configure setups with customized Linux and Transmission, so lets make it easy.

You need:

- Raspberry PI (3 is good enough, and uses less energie than 4)

- external drive

Installation:

- Just use the standard Raspberry OS

- Install VPN client if your government thinks the world would be a better place without your public available harddrive.

- Install qBittorrent > sudo apt install qbittorrent

thats it!

If you want to run headless, install VNC. Want to have you files available on Windows network? Install Samba.

Now share your intellectual valuables!