That’s a good point, Noway, about faking the user agent, which certainly is one possibility for getting around client bans. A bit risky though because it’s not 100% foolproof, the potential being you’re IP and account (should you have one) getting perma-banned. Not a big deal for some, especially those running anonymously and/or using proxies, but a big deal for a lot of others I’m sure.

There shouldn’t really be a need for private sites to ban older clients for the particular reason this blog post discusses. However a lot of them have shown logic isn’t really their strong suit, with torrent clients being banned due to one false belief or another, or simply because other sites may be doing it. Research is hard, banning is easy lol.

My biggest concern was the public trackers though, provided they care enough about those getting DDoS’ed out there, which in a few cases does include themselves I’m sure. Between all of the private and public trackers, admins have it in their power to force everyone to change their torrent client if enough of them so chose. While not the end of the world, it is still an unpleasant thought for a lot of users.