\r\nWith millions of potential targets, BitTorrent sites are a great arena for scammers and spammers…

A different point is the hardware aspect, for this system they need considerable hardware power, and the speed of adding the torrents is slightly slower.

On the other hand, waiting for 1 day to get a perfectly good torrent or spend a day downloading crap before getting the right one.. I'd know my choice. (not including the fact that if you are slightly experienced you will be able to distinguish between most good and crap torrents.. but still).

Also I would be especially careful (as people should be anyways) of any exe files as it's not until they are run that crypted files can be detected as carrying a malware payload and even then if it's a new payload it may well not be detected at all still as scanner definitions haven't been updated prior to it being verified.

I would suggest that whatever verification system they are using needs vast improvement if a torrent is uploaded as an exe file, 0.2 MB in size that is named as a DVDrip of a full length movie. How much veriification is actually going on – judging by this not much at all and I would seriously question the claims of the owners based on this. I doubt if they're purposely scamming people or anything of that nature.

It was removed but as I said it was up for at least 2 days – so I would exercise caution and treat this as any other public tracker.

If you don't believe me check out this before it gets removed: http://vertor.com/torrents/486698/Curious-Case-of…

…the preview actually shoes a DRM (or password) protected file.

Hah– I would bet you any amount of money that they don't verify the copyright at all. That would spoil their business model which is, as far as I can tell, to attract attention for their other projects so cool people will come and pay them real money. While there are some legit torrent sites, I wouldn't be surprised if more than 90% are devoted to avoiding paying the creators anything.

Jamie
privacy-tools.at.tc

common sence prevails, but ofcourse would be good for public trackers to be able to verify torrents for commoners with lack of common sence, however it would also be something antipirate/lobbying organisations will appriciate alot aswell..

They get torrents verified for free, with no work having to be done by themselves except go strait to "beingamafiaorganisationmode" with their extorsions or suing letters/demands,
then watch the money flow in as noone can afford to go to court and defend themselves even if it was a simple win..

They are everyday users that upload torrent files – we ban their IP/torrent hash/email address and they just come back 3 minutes later with a new ones, they use 1,000's of proxy address
We have so many measures in place to handle these guys but they are actually like a team of soilders uploading PPI torrents night and day – they are almost impossible to spot too unless you know what you're looking for.

The torrents do not come from that site – so we can not just blacklist them.

They are smart and without us moderators on Mininova and TPB the sites would
be ruined.

Vertor – i'll send you a mail later on in the week – keep up the good work

A system only needs to give one set of info to be reliable (since it is genuinely generetad from the content).

User reviews/rating/screenshots would need at least 2 for some reliability (the one who submitted the torrent could easily fake a review). Even then there you have difference in the quality of screenshots, types of info given etc.