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Policing this crap isn't trivial and not worth the effort.
We just gave up and block 100% of all P2P traffic on both our university wireless and student wired networks.
In our corporate network, we just detect for common BT applications on the endpoint and alert on that instead.
My university just blacklisted the questionable trackers' DNS, not the actual data traffic
So basically I would tether to my cell phone, wait for it to fetch a list of peers from the tracker, and then switch back to the uni wifi to complete the download