Comments on: BitThief Spies on their Users

By: zOOz

zOOz — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:26:56 +0000

Here are 2 ways to stop BitThief from spying on you:
http://limboinmetropolis.blogspot.com/2008/07/bitthief-how-low-can-we-go.html

By: Frost

Frost — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:47:50 +0000

@Odin
Ya .. I agree .. I used to be on a 56k and know how bad it is. A person dloading at 56k is not a big leech and not a threat. But imagine the bigger guys, the ones who really use bit-thief are the ones with way more than 1 meg speed. Personally, I use a private tracker and try my best to make sure anyone who uses BitThief is banned. I’m not against BitThief. I am only against those fucking bastards who use it.

By: jcidiot

jcidiot — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:01:11 +0000

@19/odin
i think dial up is symetrical… u can dl and upload at the same time. it’s just sharing a movie even with superseeding…might take a while :P

By: WEareNULL

WEareNULL — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:56:06 +0000

I honestly believe that the only reason the information is sent to them is for academic reasons. I think they are trying to find out how effective they’re exploit’s are and are hoping to see that soon they no longer work.

By: Odin

Odin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:04:52 +0000

Oh, stop saying “start sharing”. It so idiotic…don’t you think the most people would like to share, but they can’t afford? I mean, how can I with 56k (I’m from Macedonia), how can I upload and download in the same time. It takes me ten min. to fully open my Yahoo mail, for heavens sake…how long do you think it takes me for torrents, hm?
I could swear to anyone on this world, I want to share…I share my books, my music, my movies with people, why wouldn’t I spend couple more minutes to upload something important to somebody, as much as something else is important to me?
Wihtout sharing, there were be no P2P. I appreciate the concept deeply.I want to share…I want to upload. But I CAN’T.
I do not like concept of revenge, but I would like all of you who sware and spit on those who can’t (not on those who don’t want, those we all hate) upload normaly, to be cursed for a week, with a download speed 1-3kb. I would see you then. Then you would sing a different song.

By: Sharing is caring

Sharing is caring — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:01:57 +0000

Start sharing you greedy bastards!

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By: fLuX

fLuX — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:14:10 +0000

Even if it is as legitimate as they may claim, it seems a plague in the torrent society to “hit and run” or simply have a client that only downloads. Its called filesharing for a reason ya know. =/

By: raindance rob

raindance rob — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:16:58 +0000

im sorry but you cant just take someones word for something i mean sure BitThief claims that its for research but we only have their word for this i mean the internet is full of liers, fakes & cheats. eg lets say that i start up a website & make a program that claims to be the fastest torrent downloader on earth are u all gonna talk my word for it ?

also the fact that they didnt publish the above info should at least get alarm bells ringing. i mean why not publish this info if its genuine ? seems abit strange to me.

also the whole point in torrents is to share so by not uploading aint u just being selfish & just downloading what you want & not uploading so that over ppl can enjoy it also

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:50:14 +0000

Sorry read the home page for the software http://dcg.ethz.ch/projects/bitthief/

They collect data from clients to data map how long it takes to download something without uploading.

They only collect the HASH which cannot be used to view what file(s) are downloaded.