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BitComet Banned From Private Trackers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the salt-for-my-leeches dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Slyck news is reporting that because BitComet does not recognize the 'private flag' on torrents originating from pirate BitTorrent trackers, this client is being banned from these communities. Private trackers are finding their torrents spread via the private DHT layer, allowing leechers to bypass ratios and download content freely."

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  1. with the what and the who and the what? by Bazman · · Score: 3, Funny

    First slashdot article I've seen for a while that has read like total gibberish. Anyone got a link to what half those terms mean?

    Does anyone with a slashdot id under 5000 understand it?

    1. Re:with the what and the who and the what? by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slashdot article that reads like total gibberish? You must be new here.

    2. Re:with the what and the who and the what? by jpatters · · Score: 5, Funny

      Does anyone with a slashdot id under 5000 understand it?

      No.

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    3. Re:with the what and the who and the what? by Bacon+Bits · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wow, elitism and ignorance in the same post. You have been here a long time!

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    4. Re:with the what and the who and the what? by cheesy9999 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Does anyone with a Slashdot ID under 750204 understand it?

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    5. Re:with the what and the who and the what? by crulx · · Score: 4, Funny

      Only the ones with palindrome id's.

    6. Re:with the what and the who and the what? by pchan- · · Score: 4, Funny

      What nonsense! I need a comment us old folks would understand, something that doesn't assume dependence on fads like TCP.

      Remember how back in the olden days you'd buy a game and take the floppies to school to trade with your friends? In exchange for your copy of Wing Commander, you'd be allowed to copy everyone else's floppy disks for your 286. Now, imagine if your friend was an Amiga user, and was always bragging about how he had fancy midi sound and better than CGA graphics. So one day, you go over to his house and when he's not looking you shove a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in his floppy drive, and tell him his little brother did it. Where was I going with this story? You damn kids get off my lawn.

  2. One slip... by Grandma+Death · · Score: 2, Funny
    BitComet does not recognize the 'private flag' on torrents originating from pirate BitTorrent trackers
    Nice Freudian skip there.
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    1. Re:One slip... by narcc · · Score: 5, Funny

      A Freudian Slip is when you say one thing, but mean your mother...

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  3. Yarr! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    BitComet does not recognize the 'private flag' on torrents originating from pirate BitTorrent trackers

    Ye means 'pirate flag', ye rumpity old skalliwag! Th'old skull and cross bones! Yarr!

  4. Re:Azureus Is Shite by shoptroll · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well what'd you expect from something running in a Java VM? I've seen 150mb of RAM go to Azureus, Eclipse and the JVM while using me computer. Not that it matters a whole lot when you've got a gig of RAM.

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  5. Another fact by springbox · · Score: 5, Funny
    BitComet does not recognize the 'private flag' on torrents originating from pirate BitTorrent trackers

    BitComet was also found to ignore the "evil bit."

  6. Re:Pot? Meet Kettle. by mph · · Score: 5, Funny
    There could very well be a family wishing to share a large collection of digital family videos that they have taken at holidays and birthdays, for instance. They want them to remain fairly private while sharing the content that they own.
    What kind of family worries about "leechers bypassing ratios"?

    "Grandma, we love you, but it's about time you seed some vids of your own!"

  7. Re:private/pirate by heinousjay · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sometimes the jokes just right themselves

    And just as often, they wrong others.

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  8. Re:Pot? Meet Kettle. by CyricZ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, right! That is a laugh. A family sharing their home videos over bit torrent. Can you name ONE family doing that? Can you name ONE family even CAPABLE of doing that?

    The Jenkins from Idaho, for instance. Then there are the Maxwells and the Crenshaws in Leeds. Don't forget the Ogdens in Oslo, and the Buzzonis in Turin.

    I'm sorry, that's more than one family!

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  9. Re:Changing BitComet's User-Agent by totalnet · · Score: 3, Funny

    BitComet is not open source. But a hex editor will make it tell tracker's that it's another BT client.

  10. Priceless. by Ph33r+th3+g(O)at · · Score: 5, Funny

    Peer-to-peer sharers thwarted in their ability to control who participates in sharing by a peer-to-peer protocol.

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  11. Re:Pot? Meet Kettle. by DigiShaman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, that gives me an idea. Let create a new P2P app and call it "Grandma". Just imagine a few years later of kids using this software. Eventually, one of them gets busted in court and goes before the judge...

    "Your honor, Eric is being prosecuted for supporting Grandma!

    Ya, right, that will go over well with the court. ;)

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  12. Re:Watch what I do here by raehl · · Score: 2, Funny

    tortured so effectively I have to wonder if you work for the White House.

    If it was done effectively, the White House had nothing to do with it.

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  13. Re:Changing BitComet's User-Agent by cheesee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bug? Us hardcore leechers consider this a valuable feature

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