Download your favourite Linux ISO's in peace knowing that the powers that be will not mistake you for one of those filthy pirates.

• Breaking the law is bad mmmk...
• You shouldn't be sharing files with strangers on the internet, kids.
• Don't disappoint your Big Brother now 👀

This is a dockerized static qbittorrent-nox that is built against a patched version of libtorrent with the function body of bt_peer_connection::write_piece commented into a no_op.

This function is responsible for sending blocks of a file to a remote peer, as well as some bookkeeping around stats and alerts.

This way 0 bytes of file data are ever sent back to peer connections, handshakes and other protocol communications are unaffected and the client chugs along happily in this state.

I wanna give mad props to qbittorrent-nox-static for providing a god tier build script that builds a statically compiled version of qbittorrent-nox, works with most architectures and includes and out of the box way to apply patches.

libtorrent: v2.0.9
qBittorrent: release-4.5.4

BYO qBittorrent.conf & data.
~/.config/qBittorrent/ and ~/.local/share/qBittorrent/ live in the /config mount.
The /downloads mount is obvious.
Set the PUID and PGID to a user:group with read+write permissions on the volumes.

example docker-compose.yml:

---
version: "3"
services:
  greedy-torrent:
    build: .
    image: ghcr.io/bradyslot/greedy-torrent:latest
    hostname: greedy-torrent
    container_name: greedy-torrent
    volumes:
      - /example:/config
      - /example:/downloads
    environment:
      - PGID=1000
      - PUID=1000
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
      - 6881:6881
      - 6881:6881/udp
    restart: unless-stopped