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- alex1015, on 10/10/2007, -3/+121More proof BitComet is rubbish, luckily it's banned in most places.
- tarquell, on 10/10/2007, -8/+71use utorrent http://utorrent.com/download.php
- Mihai12345, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30RTFA
- wiifm69, on 10/10/2007, -4/+26and they call this a 'feature'. wtf were the developers thinking?
- Azimuth1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23To be fair I think it's actually a good idea, just thoughtlessly implemented.
- directsun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16The fake padding file trick mentioned in article:
Sympton:
An attacker can make torrent files that prevent BitComet 0.85+ from finishing.
Reproduction of the bug:
1. Suppose that a directory contains the files that you want to share. Create a text file in the directory, and type something in it, then rename it to "_____padding_file_0_____" (with no file extension).
2. Use a torrent maker, such as the built-in maker of BitComet 0.70, to make a torrent file out of the directory.
3. BitComet 0.85+ cannot succeed in downloading, seeding or hashing the torrent.
The cause of this bug (skip this section if you like):
BitComet 0.85+ treats files, whose names match the pattern "_____padding_file______" where is an ordinal, and is some text (by default, it asks you to use BitComet 0.85+), as padding files generated by BitComet 0.85+, thus avoids downloading them (check the corresponding xml file for 'DownloadBytes' in the 'torrent' subfolder).
But the padding files are not generated by BitComet 0.85+ (when [file align to piece bounary] is used), and carry information different from the generated ones, so the hashes are different as they are supposed to be. - ToadLeg, on 11/05/2007, -2/+16If any clients/servers hadn't banned BitComet yet, they will now.
- break99, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17BitComet pollutes PERIOD.
- rootchino, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15How is utorrent not just as light on system resources? its like not even a fkn meg...
- GutBomb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12please don't refer to the RIAA or MPAA as authorities. They are organizations stocked with lawyers. Nothing more.
- naonao, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I stopped using BitComet the minute it started having unremovable porn ads in the actual software. uTorrent ftw!
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -4/+14Once upon a time BitComet was one of the best clients availble. When most clients were Java or Python based, BitComet was one of the first to be compiled in C++. I remember using it for quite some time.. but uTorrent changed all of that. Now, it's causing issues on the majority of trackers and the great name BitComet used to have is now tarnished (last ver I used was about 0.59). What a shame :(
Long live uTorrent (please). - JigoroKano, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14I'm downloading 4GB and seeding 3GB right now with a 25MB and 00%CPU footprint.
Firefox, iTunes, explorer are all using more. - jawbreaker4fs, on 10/10/2007, -8/+17Do you also love bigger footprints than a sasquatch?
- SonnyW, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Stealing? Downloading movies and music is perfectly legal where I'm from.
- SysstemLord, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6i love you man, long live .70
the newer versions are full of crap - Otto, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Ummm.. This is false. uTorrent 1.7.2 connects to all the trackers I use just fine. Nobody's banning uTorrent, because uTorrent is almost half of all of the BitTorrent clients out there.
It also doesn't report anything to anybody. People who don't understand multicast packets were confused. And anyway, 1.7.2 fixes that for private torrents. - alt229, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9This is exactly what oldversion.com is for, when your favourite software jumps the shark. Download BitComet .70 and you won't have any problem with creating padded files and can still get some good speeds when downloading torrents.
- ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5That whole "reporting all your ***** to MediaSentry and Bittorrent Inc" was proven to be false a loooong time ago.
- fhscomtech3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Your comment makes no sense...if you want to use a site that bans BitComet, then use some other client. If you ARE already using bitcomet then you wont be downloading any junk...
- ArchangelZLT, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7I say BitComet is junk itself.
- manageMyRights, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6uTorrent and Azureus both support UPnP which should work automatically if its turned on with the firewall. If you administer the firewall you can also open ports manually or turn on UPnP. Nat traversal with bitcomet is extremely unreliable and only lets you connect to other bitcomet users (which is almost none).
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Your CPU monitoring software is broken.
- naonao, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Its comments like this that make me wish I could digg you down twice.
- directsun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Are you friggin kidding me?
- PixelVision, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I'm still not convinced. It seems that in those threads a lot of people have analysed the packets and haven't found anything that could be going to any authorities. Is it just paranoia?
- tokyoturnip, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4BitTornado is my choice. I am not going to say "its the best".
But I will say, very simple, can control upload to not flood my upstream, does the job. - SonnyW, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8I'm not sure why you're being dugg down, but Bitcomet's NAT stuff is why I started using it in the first place (and not, say, utorrent)
- xtlosx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6if you're in linux use deluge or bit tornado!!!
- jessebs, on 10/10/2007, -11/+14I wish other clients would start implementing NAT Traversal features. BC is the only client I can use behind my apartment's firewall.
- Gutterpunk, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7And why do you think you get all that amazing speed? Because BitComet is cheating ratios, its a client that advantage only leechers, especially now that seeder and torrent creator are propagating dummy files because of it.
Its not going faster because its better, but because it cheats everyone else but bitcomet users. - alok0, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Not really considering this just eliminates the need to download partial pieces of other files when download some files out of a batch torrent. But with a piece size of about say 1MB you would never have any partial pieces larger than 1MB and you could only have as many partial pieces are you have boundaries between skipped files and nonskipped files. which would be limited to at most half of the total number of files. So in a 30 file torrent you could only have 15 partial unused pieces, at most 15MB, and a 30 file torrent like that would probably be in the range of 2-4GB, the padding files are pointless.
In mp3s, they would be say 100MB torrent with 18 files and a 64KB piece size, so at most there would be 9 64K unused pieces, which is at most 576K which about 0.5 % wasted bandwidth. So imo bitcomet's idea is totally pointless, because there is no significant loss as there is. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3ANY reasonable client can be configured not to screw with the upstream.
- Jinekace, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Once i used utorrent, i never touched bitcomet again. Don't know why people still using that piece of junk.
- insanebrain, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6/me loves free memory to keep using computer while downloading.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I got you covered
- bobbob1016, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7People still don't block bitcomet? I have Azureus and I installed the Stuffer plugin which I set to block bitcomet and bitlord, after reading that they do some funny things with torrents.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3@ToadLeg:
From your OWN link:
From a private tracker admin:
"I have been checking packets sent from µtorrent 1.7.1 for the past few hours now, and I cannot find anything that states that anything is being reported to any authorities. I am therefore removing the ban on µtorrent 1.7.1. One of our staff has also spoken to one of their Development team. I am still yet to discuss finer details and concerns with this particular developer but all signs are looking good.
The measure of banning 1.7.1 was taken to assure the safety of our members until such proof could be found to discount these allegations" - blueorder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I've come to really like Deluge.
- lidong, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I always try to unselect these junk files.
- fivefootfour, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Same here.
- naonao, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Thank you very much good sir.
- HsoKinees, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I call BS, i've used every beta versions of uTorrent that's been made available on the official website and from filehippo, i've NEVER been banned from any tracker i've used, mostly these days I use Demonoid, never had an issue there, or anywhere else
- Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I am having the same experience lately. I ditched bitcommet for utorrent because I wanted something lighter weight and simpler without all the BS in it. That, and I got a 'free ipod nano' ad in bitcomet which is pretty much uh, yeah, ***** bitcomet. But utorrent doesnt work as well! Dont know what to do now.
- SuperSloth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1µTorrent 1.7.2 has NAT-PMP as well as UPnP.
- naonao, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3People are very particular about their torrent clients, its all a matter of preference. Some like simple, small GUI's, some like the bloatedness that is the new Azureus, and some like Bitcomet. I used to be a longtime Bitcomet user but it just became impossible to use and a RAM hog. uTorrent is small, efficient and universally accepted. What more can you ask for?
- jessebs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And neither of those help with the complex's firewall.
- alok0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1oops yea i did do that wrong, there are n-1 boundaries so it would be in the range of 1-3% depending on how badly the torrent is configured. But it matters not, because we are talking about broadband internet and you that small amount will not actually amount to much and most people don't download every other file of a torrent, usually all of it. or maybe only half... creating on average only a few boundaries. which would create less than .1% waste
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If you just want something lightweight Transmission-GTK is probably the best. It's very barebones but I have it in my tray all the time isntead of having Deluge up.
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