The major problem for a network admin is to stop the use of torrents on the user machine. Sometimes a small organization or start-up don't have enough funds to purchase a firewall to stop the use of a torrent. In an organization, a user uses the torrent to download movies, songs, and so on, which eats up a lot of bandwidth. In this section, we will see how to eradicate this problem using the Python program. Our program will detect the torrent when a torrent program is running.
The concept is based on the client-server architecture. The server code will be run on the admin machine and the client code will be run on the user's machine in hidden mode. When a user uses the torrent, the client code will notify the server machine.
First, look at the following server code and try to understand the code. The code name is torrent_detection_server.py:
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