Bitcomet: The BitTorrent Bully?
Written by Ernesto on September 06, 2006Bitcomet has been a controversial BitTorrent client for quite a while now. Version 0.59 and 0.60 ignored the “private flag”, and soon after that Bitcomet was banned from most private trackers.
The flag error is fixed in the more recent releases, but there are still a lot of other issues coming up every now and then. For example, some report that Bitcomet favors other Bitcomet users. Other rumors are that Bitcomet is hammering peers with announce requests, and that Bitcomet is ignoring piece requests.
This of course would undermine the “democratic nature” of the BitTorrent protocol. Kdsde has an understandable way to explain Bitcomet’s alleged bully behavior. In a comment on our “why BitTorrent works” post Kdsde wrote:
one problem with this “democracy” is; it allows also bullies on the schoolyard. On the BitTorrent schoolyard those bullies are named BitComet. BitComets “lie” to other peers, hammers the Seeders, disobey the commands regarding the connection from other peers ect.
So if someone is using a Windows Operating System he should not act like a bully and should NOT use BitComet. There are swarmfriendly alternatives out there; for example uTorrent [www.utorrent.com].
Brilliant!
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hey i.ve been using Bitcomet and it IS mean….it wont seed a completed file even when i tell it to!
and the download is always faster then the swarm average!
i love the speed but my ratio gets too low all the time so i think its time for a change in programs!
thank for the info
aahhh dammit i love bitcomet… :’(
Love my little uTorrent program… Use that instead of Bitcomet
I ban BitComet ip-addresses for life — I log them in uTorrent, then copy the addresses into a PeerGuardian block list.
Bang. Done. End-of-story. They will NEVER receive a seed block from me again.
I used utorrent but heard that they sold out to the big guys at the motion pictures companies. So those companies have access on what utorrent is being used to download. what is a good client that I could use now?
bitcomet seeds completely jimmx, i had a 4:1 ratio
wtf are we arguing about seriously, so what if bit commet is doing this, whats really the main concern here is that any client no matter what one you support is capable of downloading pirated software, I mean has everyone lost their marbles around here. its ok to steal but not ok to use different kinds of methods of stealing wtf man. some of you guys need to wise up what most clients are doing at this very moment right now is stealing downloading pirated software etc… lay off already with the bit commet bully thing its the least of our worries.
Nathan, you’re completely missing the fact that peer-to-peer file distribution isn’t just about copying unlicensed material. It’s being used to distribute completely legal stuff all the time…
It’s not the P2P clients that do abuse, it’s the people who are using them.
If you have 100% of Mr. Wrong, please log in —-we needs some seeds. I’m at 94.9 - help me out
thanks a million!!!!
[quote comment="12190"]hey i.ve been using Bitcomet and it IS mean….it wont seed a completed file even when i tell it to!
and the download is always faster then the swarm average!
i love the speed but my ratio gets too low all the time so i think its time for a change in programs!
thank for the info[/quote]
seed Mr. wrong thanks
When I was using BitComet it was always slowing down my computer, so I switched to u torrent. Its agreat and safe torrent client. Use it instead of BitComet.
hi ive been using bitcomet and never had a problem but i tried to make a torrent tonight using bittorrent and now when i try to download something it goes straight to bittorrent…how do i get my default back to bitcomet??? plz help me xxx
utorrent is inferior
bitcomet can edit tracker and save torrent as a file .torrent, upload to website to get more people to leech
utorrent = suck.
bitcomet= the best.
fuck the rest ;)
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I’ve tested Bitcomet and found it more insecure than normal because of it’s “HEY IM HERE GIVE ME DATA!” approach where as other clients are more subtle, cleaner programmed, faster and more secure. If you cant get a decent download speed on a decent, open sourced client it’s because your too dumb to set it up and open ports or too lazy to even try, seriously get a decent client bitcomet foolz before your computer becomes a bot virus/spam spreading net zombie, explodes because of all the trojans and malware and you get a letter from billgates or some agency because it was so easy to pinch your local IP, hack your computer and sue you with $10000 fines because of all that pirated shiet you downloaded, wasting the reputation of a perfectly good idea and another p2p network because you where too dumb to pay some fking respect to the people you get those files from and the rest of world in general. at least get a OPENSOURCE client so people know what it’s doing and so you can trust it and for gods sake stop abusing one of the last great interchanges of free data left on the web, if u want freedom from control so bad, THEN SUPPORT YOUR PEERS AND COVER YOUR OWN ASS FOR A CHANGE.
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That is strange i use bitcomet and i normally have a get a seed ratio of 1:2 before it even finishes much less when i seed on purpose
…because bitComet is not much faster than other clients and if it is it all comes down to better programming.
There has been a “study” about BitComet > 0.9 and it found that it has just poor upload-slow control and nothing of the roumors is true.
If somebody things he is fair by banning User-Ips apparently running BitComet than that person is not very much informed in general. Every 24h the ip CHANGES, at least in very much countries.
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think..
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Also, someone who used bitcomet ONCE has perhaps changed the client…and is now “banned for life”.
IP filters are not that relieable anyway though they offer certain protection.
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