slyck.com— An increasing number of private torrent trackers are banning Bitcomet because it is ignoring the ?private flag?, and makes private torrents available through the DHT layer.
Dec 11, 2005View in Crawl 4
I've been really happy with BitComet, much better than that Java PoS...Might have to give ?Torrent a go then, see if it's as good as they say, although I get good speeds and stuff on BitComet, generally.
I hate when people get all righteous. Is there a way to change the client name?Also, it's not really a big deal. You take the source from another bit torrent client and modify it so it ignores the flags. Change the client type, and voila, you're free to do as you please.
i'm amazed uTorrent is using less than 10mb of ram after running all night. private trackers don't matter to me and bitcomet always treated me good, but it's definitely worth checking out.
My main hate for BitComet is that it supports stupid extension that got it banned from many trackers, and that it does not implement the protocol right with its stupid utf8 extension. All strings have to be utf8, according to the spec. BitComet uses the local encoding and has an additional utf8 key, which means that Chinese torrents will fail if the app that tries to use that torrent file tries to read a Chinese torrent and doesn't know that it should filter the torrent (take the value of path.utf8 and put it path). As for BitComet Tracker, that thing fails miserably.As for DHT. Currently, there are two implementations:- The Azureus one, which is most popular due to the millions that use it.- The Official BitTorrent one.Both have not released specs.Azureus does use a ton more resources because the Java garbage collector sucks. I use it on a PIII 733 Mhz with 512 MiB of RAM, and I can still have a ton of Firefox tabs open, listen to music/watch video, have other Java apps open, visual studio, IRC. YOU MUST USE THE LATEST JAVA RUNTIME.If you really got problems with Java and don't need a lot of features, you might want to try Arctic Torrent at <a class="user" href="http://www.int64.org/arctic.html.">http://www.int64.org/arctic.html.</a>Both AZ dudes and BC dudes, STOP spreading FUD. Both have issues.
The idea of this is just freaking stupid.People who illegally download stuff (many of whom idioticly try to defend themselves with the "information is free!" crap) want to go GWB "war on leechers" and use available tracking and forced membership to police the idea of a fairness policy.Well that just makes all the sense in the freaking world doesn't it.If you download stuff, whatever.If you upload, well good for - STFU. Don't do it to be a martyr.
Yea while this topic is over a year old, its still pretty stupid.Private Trackers disgust me, the mods run it like they own the people and treat you like your 5 years old and they just gave you your favorite cookie. Its not their bandwidth, its the members, but we should be grateful to them for it? WTF. If your a private tracker mod, please STFU.
eagleyDec 11, 2005
IMHO ignoring the private tag is an *advantage*
bigbro69Dec 12, 2005
I've been really happy with BitComet, much better than that Java PoS...Might have to give ?Torrent a go then, see if it's as good as they say, although I get good speeds and stuff on BitComet, generally.
astylerDec 12, 2005
nonleechers need leechers, else 1:1 is impossible
rmdlDec 12, 2005
I hate when people get all righteous. Is there a way to change the client name?Also, it's not really a big deal. You take the source from another bit torrent client and modify it so it ignores the flags. Change the client type, and voila, you're free to do as you please.
xlikxDec 12, 2005
i love BC, easy to use. who cares about private trackers? the files will eventually end up in another tracker anyways
mcbeanDec 12, 2005
i'm amazed uTorrent is using less than 10mb of ram after running all night. private trackers don't matter to me and bitcomet always treated me good, but it's definitely worth checking out.
anarchy99Dec 13, 2005
so using this dht layer it doesnt keep track of share ratios and private trackers are accessiblecoolanyone know a mac client that does this
Closed AccountDec 23, 2005
My main hate for BitComet is that it supports stupid extension that got it banned from many trackers, and that it does not implement the protocol right with its stupid utf8 extension. All strings have to be utf8, according to the spec. BitComet uses the local encoding and has an additional utf8 key, which means that Chinese torrents will fail if the app that tries to use that torrent file tries to read a Chinese torrent and doesn't know that it should filter the torrent (take the value of path.utf8 and put it path). As for BitComet Tracker, that thing fails miserably.As for DHT. Currently, there are two implementations:- The Azureus one, which is most popular due to the millions that use it.- The Official BitTorrent one.Both have not released specs.Azureus does use a ton more resources because the Java garbage collector sucks. I use it on a PIII 733 Mhz with 512 MiB of RAM, and I can still have a ton of Firefox tabs open, listen to music/watch video, have other Java apps open, visual studio, IRC. YOU MUST USE THE LATEST JAVA RUNTIME.If you really got problems with Java and don't need a lot of features, you might want to try Arctic Torrent at <a class="user" href="http://www.int64.org/arctic.html.">http://www.int64.org/arctic.html.</a>Both AZ dudes and BC dudes, STOP spreading FUD. Both have issues.
chowzersApr 13, 2006
The idea of this is just freaking stupid.People who illegally download stuff (many of whom idioticly try to defend themselves with the "information is free!" crap) want to go GWB "war on leechers" and use available tracking and forced membership to police the idea of a fairness policy.Well that just makes all the sense in the freaking world doesn't it.If you download stuff, whatever.If you upload, well good for - STFU. Don't do it to be a martyr.
Closed AccountApr 29, 2007
Yea while this topic is over a year old, its still pretty stupid.Private Trackers disgust me, the mods run it like they own the people and treat you like your 5 years old and they just gave you your favorite cookie. Its not their bandwidth, its the members, but we should be grateful to them for it? WTF. If your a private tracker mod, please STFU.