Comments on: Private Trackers Ban Bitcomet

By: BitComet Reaches Milestone with v1.00 at IDTorrent Blog

BitComet Reaches Milestone with v1.00 at IDTorrent Blog — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:06:24 +0000

[...] all started in 2005 when BitComet was banned from several private BitTorrent trackers for ignoring the “private flag”. Even though this issue was resolved relatively quickly, the image of BitComet was permanently [...]

By: thenotsojollyroger

thenotsojollyroger — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:36:03 +0000

private trackers are shit anyway.
aren’t you more likely to get ‘busted’
in swarms of a hundred or so?
and scene releases cannot be uploaded under new accs leading to paranoia/time slacks…
of course i dont have any invites(tear) so that changes my outlook.

By: BitComet Reaches Milestone with v1.00 | TorrentFreak

BitComet Reaches Milestone with v1.00 | TorrentFreak — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:35 +0000

By: guido

guido — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:11:30 +0000

private trackers suck. i’m personally sick of seeing a good result in a torrent search only to find that i have to register and be forced to keep my computer going for up to 24hrs or more after i complete my download. a lot of these sites have way too many rules or are too exclusive.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:20:50 +0000

what.cd doesn’t allow it either.

By: Bitcomet: The Bittorrent Bully? at Torrentfreak

Bitcomet: The Bittorrent Bully? at Torrentfreak — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:58:27 +0000

[...] Bittorrent 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. [...]

By: Torrentfreak » Bitcomet 0.61 Released

Torrentfreak » Bitcomet 0.61 Released — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:07:37 +0000

[...] This caused quite some controversy and led to a Bitcomet ban by several private trackers. By ignoring the “private flag” of torrents, so called private torrents became available to non-registered members through the DHT layer. DHT layers are “peer-to-peer” trackers (I like to keep things simple), and these don’t require an ip bound passkey in order to share. [...]

By: Dark^

Dark^ — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:06:18 +0000

torrentlounge.com also ban’s this torrent client

By: TonyB

TonyB — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:08 +0000

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