iroh might interest you, an amazing rust p2p library, it punch through NATs and firewalls, allowing devices to communicate directly.
Here is some cool tools using it:
DHT and tackers leaks you IP, on purpose. The goal is to establish connections between peers, the only way to do that is to use IP adresses. DHT and trackers act like a DNS, giving list of IPs associated to a torrent hash.
Now if you use a VPN, well configured, you'll only expose your VPN output node IP.
Don't disable DHT and PeX, both are used together to find peers on public torrents, in fact it is the only decentralized way to find them (otherwise you only rely on trackers, which can be DNS censored or took down like any regular website).
DHT is great!
DHT is the bone that make torrent unstoppable!
If your soulseek and music directories are on the same partition, you can do hardlinks (cp -l) instead of moving files (mv), so the same file is available from the 2 locations while its content is only recorded once on your filesystem.
I've been banned from Ygg with "OUST" message also, I was just seeding some releases I already had to build up ratio on a relatively new account. New account start with a 10Gb upload and you need to keep ratio over 1 to get torrent link. I've been banned once I reached ~50Gb upload...
I just hope French piracy will move away from those rats and find a better and more open torrent website.
iroh might interest you, an amazing rust p2p library, it punch through NATs and firewalls, allowing devices to communicate directly. Here is some cool tools using it: