Nice article

Couldn’t agree more. I had a 60 gb bandwidth limmit. Yeah, like I can keep my ratio at 1.00. Get your head out of your ass! Its no t like all of us have 500 gb to upload. Also am a screen reader user here. Most private trackers I signed up for had little or no solutions for frr me.

Ah, another scenetorrents user. I was thinking “Wow, that sounds almost word for word…” For good reason. :)

Waffles pwns all -lol

But some trackers, TorrentLeech for example, are populated by incompetent douchebags who have no idea how bittorrent works and lack the skills to form logical arguments.

Of course these admins don’t have the capacity to comprehend how DHT works.

However, since they are by design stupid, they are also unaware of their incompetence and stupidity, and will therefore live happy lives in the belief that they are great.

People who use public trackers exclusively usually bitch about the private ones because they can’t hit and run and they would have to maintain a ratio.

People who use private trackers exclusively usually bitch about public trackers being insecure, having slow speeds and the users being douches.

The fact is both types serve their role. There are many rare things that are only available on public trackers, such as demonoid and tpb, while the same goes for private trackers.

Personally I’ve found rare Danish comic scans on TPB and many rare apps releases on demonoid, that have never been through the scene – and so would usually not show up on private trackers. The community on Demonoid is so huge, and helpful, that I’ve had obscure requests filled almost instantly.

I’ve also found rare music and movies on private trackers that simply isn’t available anywhere on the public trackers. I’m also fairly confident in the applications I get from private trackers – since the files come straight from the scene. There are very few viruses and trojans in the private tracker world.

I could go on listing pros and cons of both worlds, but it’s really useless. One isn’t necessarily better than the other. Private tracker snobs can stick to the private trackers, but that doesn’t make them better people than public tracker snobs – and vice versa.

The last thing I’ll say is that it’s possible for anyone to join a private tracker. It might take a little bit of patience and perseverance, but you can join any private tracker you want by simply making a few friends in the right communities.

Have fun torrenting :)

Most people will be using the equipment provided by their provider. There providers provide current or recent models, not old. Netgear is still crap, yet many people are supplied them and they do not work well with DHT. The router page on the Vuze wiki pretty much spells it out for you.

That said, the problem in a lot of cases is Vuze itself, how it uses DHT seems to murder routers where utorrent will not. So all in all it is a truism, not a myth.

More like a month or two.

LoL… Not that its a bad thing, very interesting read, breakin it down allot further..

Thx

The tracker dies/gets busted/etc, and all the torrents die with it.

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Better make sure you have proper security setup because you are already being watched by lots of orgs..

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BitComet didn’t respect the private flag initially.. Was banned from a ton of trackers..

[I explained the entirety of the issue BitComet had with the private flag, in the article. Every other claim about Bitcomet leaking has been debunked repeatedly over the years. - Ben]

Fact.. Your an idiot as your IP is already being displayed.. If you actually use a proxy you can hope it wont be yours.. You have probably setup incorrectly..

Why would I connect to 5 peers when i can get same torrent public with 500 peers. I’ts pethetic when my torrent searches are restricted to the 10-50k members when theres a whole world out there to explore.

They aren’t any more secure then public. Private is not faster on average compared to public, not by a long shot. Plus you got stupid adds and begging for donations. Admin trolling around like there something hanging ratios, hit warnings, inactivity, max # seeds, over peoples heads. Sounds like corp BS I try so hard not to be a part of. Not a community that cares.

Some torrents i want to ditch if they feel hot, tracked. Private sites, your there pack mule where donators, admin, and inside friends get hit and go’s without risk that comes with seeding. Sounds fair?

H33t x1773 thepiratebay isohunt, are awsome places to be. Now with demonoid down, i’m just not resigning up with them again.

Ratio feels like credit score rating. Wrok hard to get number up and it’s really pointless.

A hash function (in general) maps any key to a natural number in a range from 0 to n. In our case the key is the data to be shared and the hash function is defined by the BT protocol. Let’s for the sake of simplicity assume that the hash function just pretends the file(s) to be shared are one large binary number, devides it by 512 and the remainder (0-511) is the hash.

Now we can create 512 buckets labeled bucket 0 to 511 and each time we want to find a piece of data we just have to search through one bucket, bucket h, h being the hash for the data. Associated with the entry will be a list of peers currently sharing the data.

The difference between that and a DHT is that the latter is distributed across several thousands of nodes/peers; a group of nodes is always responsible for one bucket.

PS: While the above is correct, it’s impractical. To achive good security a hash function that is near impossible to invert with a much larger image range is picked. This also ensures less collisions; the number of buckets will be kept low by something simliar to the remainder function though (to reduce memory consumption).

a private one…

dht, peer exchange, LPD is for scrubs.

you all complain about private trackers as if you are a part of them, which you obviously are not.

public trackers are what is causing the euro-crackdown on your eurotrash freedoms, not private trackers.

Being selective on who an what gets uploaded is vital for keeping a site active and alive (and not “OMG SITE STAFF ARE SO MEAN TO ME”)… need proof? scroll down on one of the 10000 articles on shit trackers like tpb and demonoid dieing…

how would you set the DHT traffic timeout to like 30 seconds? I couldn’t find this option in my BT client. Is this on the browser side? I have one of these stupid WRT54G.

But this “(especially the private ones) they like to express their control through lists of clients you can and can’t use (a form of DRM)” statement is extremely far fetched, DRM is merely encryption on a media file and in few cases a chip that prevents ‘unauthorized’ or ‘unapproved’ programs to run.

Asking or telling someone not to use a program is hardly a form of DRM since there is no control mechanism other then the person who is asking/telling.

For more information, see the specification: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html

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I can see that a lot of people is really stupid, I mean, DHT just find peers, it has nothing to do with the speed of the peers. But it looks like some people thinks that…

@34 Not true. If your client has DHT disabled for a torrent, it will not announce itself to the network. No announcement, no connection, no problem.

@37 That’s based on hearsay. Bad builds have tarnished their reputation, so the listed clients are forever outlawed. It’s ridiculous. Do you really think they’ve taken the time to personally test every one of them?

@38 Yes. You just need bootstrap nodes to get people into the DHT network.

Besides bitcomet’s apparent fucktardedness, I think TF should debunked (or proved) “some clients are better at connecting to peers” myth.