ButTyrant does upload, but nly to certain peers. About the “client banned” thing, ever heard of shu mod?:)))

If you want a 0-upload bittorrent client, try BitThief. Hey, it even works on Linux, and with the correct options works great on most of the private trackers.

such program would take less then 10 minutes to make and turn on.

also @30, settle down… I think you are missing the point.
The giant point of this article is that there is no inbound packets that need to be sent in-order to get a court case. This means literally I could set up a stream of packets from any IP I want to be on the header, and
1) request transfer of the file
[This will return packets to the fake IP's computer, which will in all likeliness not be set up to accept a torrent from that file, and will fail upon getting there]
2) spam fake upload chunks, or requested downloads
[again this will inturn sent the requested material to the spoofed IP's computer, which will not be accepted.]

This will be knocking at the door of the RIAA, upload them their own stolen music back, with a name tag of your IP address (ultimately resolved to your name, and address from ISP)

(@negatyve: Dont tell me what I can or can not do…um, does that statement kind of make me an hypocrite?)

@28: That’s not how emule works. If their client receives ANY data belonging to the file from you it has to pass a CRC check to confirm that the data is legitimate. The fact that the data gathering just collected data saying he was part of the swarm and not an active uploader essentially proves that process used to mine that data is flawed. Futhermore, the same sort of logic used to support this argument could support a case against someone who hopped on a torrent and paused it before any data is transfered…because being part of the swarm must mean you’re uploading even though they can’t prove if any data has actually been sent from your client. Their are ways to prove that you are uploading to the swarm and saying “we think he’s uploading but he never actually uploaded anything to us to confirm that suspicion” is not one of them.

If you went to a cop with a blood soaked knife saying you were a serial killer they would most certaily go through the motions of charging you with a crime. You may not be convicted due to the lack of solid evidence, e.g. a body, but still.

If his client said to their client that he sent them piece # whatever, even though he didnt, and they actualy got the peice elsewhere, as far as they are concerned, he had the piece to send or his client would have said, ’sorry I dont have that piece, piss off’. Using the defence that he’s a self admited leecher isn’t really a defence when what his client reports to the client collecting evidence contradicts what he’s saying.

if your intention is soley spoofing then you know as well as i that IP’s certainly can be spoofed.

@10: That’s straight up BS. You can not spoof anyone’s IP in a p2p environment. How the hell do you expect any information to return to you? When you send a packet, your IP address acts as a return address. If you someone elses IP address in place of yours, you will not get a response from the other end…the spoofed IP will get the response. Do you think computers communicate magically?

@ everyone complainging about leechers: This article is not intended to host a venue over the ethics of leeching. Who cares? If you don’t want to deal with leechers, get on trackers with ratio enforcement. This article is intended to comment on the fact that people are getting hit with lawsuits backed by bad data gathering. That should raise everyone’s concerns, leecher aside.

@10: That’s straight up bullshit. You can not spoof anyone’s IP in a p2p environment. How the fuck do you expect any information to return to you? When you send a packet, your IP address acts as a return address. If you someone elses IP address in place of yours, you will not get a response from the other end…the spoofed IP will get the response. Do you think computers communicate magically?