Many private sites are banning all BitComet clients

[Auggie2k]

This is a report I just read from Oink.co.uk. Turns out a lot of sites are following their lead, here's what Oink said...

We are following the example led by other private bittorrent trackers and we will be banning all BitComet clients imminently. Perhaps having so many sites banning it will encourage their developers to do something about it.

The reason why: BitComet, like Azureus, allows the sharing of peers via a DHT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table) system. Azureus implemented SecureTorrents (http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/SecureTorrents) into their client, which we coded into our tracker. BitComet followed and implemented a similar private (http://wiki.bitcomet.com/help/Tracker_HTTP_Protocol) flag. Unfortunately, the BitComet authors decided not to code what they said ("BitComet will not add DHT Network as Backup Tracker even all the trackers can not be connected later, and will also disable Peer Exchange between peers") and instead ignore this flag after a period of time.

If the BitComet developers create a new version which behaves as it should, we will happily change our stance on this. But at the moment, BitComet is not welcome here.
If you want a replacement client, Oink.co.uk and myself recommends µTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/) and Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/).

[moneoa]

so in plain joe english what does this mean?
Bitcoment is shit?

[bigsean]

Well if it stops the cheating on private trackers im all for it. I never really enjoyed bitcomet, especially now that utorrent is out, which i recomend to everyone 100%.

[moneoa]

Am I missing something?
Cheating?

[Auggie2k]

Sending false statistics to the tracker to improve their ratio and so on.

[moneoa]

ah......I have always used bittornado

[rainbowdemon]

uTorrnet is a real good one. I've been using it for a while now.

[Stownplayer]

Surly they are not banning the software because you can cheat. You can cheat on azureus anytime you want without getting into trouble. what's the difference?

[Auggie2k]

No, it's not because of cheating, it's something to do with the DHT implementation of it. Check the first post, it explains it in non lay'man's terms.

[Excrement_Cranium]

Ok, from what I understand.... they are banning bitcommet because it allows exchange of tracked torrents by outsiders. Whereas, Azureus is coded to not allow distribution of torrents coded as private through dht.

[gorphon]

Whereas, Azureus is coded to not allow distribution of torrents coded as private through dht.

AFAIK the individual users on a private tracker still need to set Azureus to only accept connections from the private tracker. Also, by default Azureus publishes to several public trackers. I believe that this will not allow people to necessarily share the private torrent but it does make it much more visible. You can often find info on torrents from places like bitme and oink on public torrent searches; it just won't allow you to leech them.

[crestfallen]

If the private flag in a torrent is set, Azureus will NOT share it via DHT and peer exchange regardless of the user options that are set.

BC, however, chooses to ignore this flag after a while and will begin to exchange and share torrent/tracker information.

[gorphon]

BC, however, chooses to ignore this flag after a while and will begin to exchange and share torrent/tracker information.


ah. then that most likely explains why I sometimes see private torrent info listed on public torrent search engines. Thanks for the info crestfallen! I've been wondering why this happened.

[shawners]

Thats why i get so pissed off about it. People exploit the program where it ends up getting peoples bt clients band. If i was a bit comit lover and someone exploit it and then i couldnt use it again. I be pissed. It encourages people to share and actually speeds up everyones completeion rate.

[ferrarimodena360]

i would highly recommend bitspirit - if u want pure speed,

but these days m capped to 96kbps hence i am using utorrent

[Excrement_Cranium]

Meh, I'm a sadass who only uses public trackers, so it doesn't affect me directly... just have to wait for shit filled public distro.

[ancutaandrei]

I am using BitComet (http://www.soft82.com/downloads/Windows/BitComet) and it is very good for my needs.

[testicles]

Pure unadulterated spamification.

[bobcat35]

i have a mac, and i use transmission. anything better besides this program? it serves my needs fine.

[Kevin578]

I think bitcomet lies about some stuff. Just use a different one like utorrent

[soft4u]

I like BitComet (http://www.rosoftdownload.com/download/Windows/BitComet)and i haven't any problem

[Sherkan]

I use uTorrent and it works great. And from what I know, it is also compatible with Bitcomet

[HelenaP]

Nice link.

Not even uTorrent's download page.

"You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later."

Darn.

[Sherkan]

Nice link.

Not even uTorrent's download page.

"You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later."

Darn.


I linked there because there is where i downloaded it. I removed the url now
Sorry for any trouble
:icon_thum

[HelenaP]

I linked there because there is where i downloaded it. I removed the url now
Sorry for any trouble
:icon_thum

No trouble for me, but I hope you didn't pay anything to download from there and if you did, please clean your machine asap with your anti malware and anti virus.


Free (from their site) url is-
http://www.utorrent.com/download.php

oooo.. apologies for spamming.

[owais12]

utorrent works the best by far, use to use bitcomet until sites i used started to ban it.

[Sherkan]

Hello
I have a question
I use Revconnect for downloading from hubs, at this moment. I've heard about Limewire, that it is very good for file sharing. Are these similar? And if they are, which one is better?
I am not even sure if Limewire works with hubs :icon_scra