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I couldn't give you an answer but a guess is that you'd need a third party firewall to filter all traffic. I doubt there's an effective way to do this without adding a point of failure. Why run the business out of Australia? Or are you saying you'll be running the actual servers in AU? If so there's more than just P2P you'll need to find a way to block.
Thanks for the feedback. I will be running the servers in Australia as a starter. Yeah i understand that there will be more to block but just wanted to start off getting p2p blocked
Thanks
P2p is very difficult to block
You can block default torrent ports ...
And block major trackers ip and urls...
If you want to be an ass...you could just block all the ports except 443 and 80
That would surely block torrent and skype too
Though skype can work after little tweaking
as others said you can't really block p2p in an on/off way. you can discourage the use though by blocking tracker and known supporting IPs. there are some ip/ipset lists available which are meant to whitelist on seedboxes, probably a good start to use these the opposite way and blacklist them ;-)
starting point: https://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php
another way is to try and drop packets on string matching packets, complicated and circumventable though.
good read: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/updating-iptables-to-block-torrent-traffic
This method will likely block the majority of p2p attempts. If somebody really wants to torrent, this won't stop them, but the methods on the Digital Ocean post are likely to prevent the majority.