I heard there are other apps that do the same thing Stremio does, which is only leech and not seed.

Im fairly sure stremio does seed, maybe users can choose not to or set really low upload but thats true of any torrent clients.

If you really dont want to share with leechers you should stop using public trackers entirely and get on something like torrentleech or another private tracker where they ban leechers.

How to block Stremio peers from qBittorrent?

You can't AFAIK.

Disable DHT

Don't do that, DHT is one of the baseline methods of public torrenting. You'll just end up cutting yourself off from tons of public torrent peers.

Unclear why you think DHT is strictly something specific to Stremio (?)

Use blocklists (I am also looking for suggestions, currently considering using this one)

That doesn't sound overly reliable, I'd guess if you want to go that route you probably want to install all their stuff including that peerbanhelper thing they are relying on. If you do all that feel free to report back to the community and let us know if it actually blocked Stremio clients for you.

Some things you could try:

• In qBittorrent you could try using a different Upload Choking Algorithm, it's not a real solution but it does help. (Tools / Options / Advanced / Upload Choking Algorithm) There you can try setting it to Anti-Leech or Round-Robin.

  • Anti-Leech is an attempt to stop uploading to peers that seem to request data while trying to mask their activity (e.g. leeching clients), it's not perfect but can help. See https://www.libtorrent.org/reference-Settings.html#enum-seed-choking-algorithm-t and https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/4217 for more discussion.

  • Round-Robin isn't blocking leeching, what it does is tell your torrent client to split the upload evenly between the requesting peers on a torrent. The result is that you will be uploading slower to a leeching client so those type of clients will prefer to get their upload from other faster peers rather than wait on yours.

• If you're desperate you could switch to an alternate torrent client, something like https://github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition it's not an official qBittorrent client but rather qBittorrent with some anti-leech additions. They mainly focus on chinese leeching clients so I'm not sure that would help at all with Stremio but you could try opening an issue if it looks like Stremio clients are still leeching off it, maybe the devs can figure something out https://github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition/issues

Me personally I don't worry about this stuff, for public torrents qBittorrent along with Round-Robin or Anti-Leech is enough. Otherwise just stick to private trackers where this sort of leeching is a non-issue.

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Unless you have a complete list of confirmed Streamio client IPs, you really can't.

I thought Stremio is a media center similar to jellyfin?