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utorrent 1.3 banned from several torrentsites???


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Today I received two messages from torrentsites that the use of utorrent 1.3 is no longer allowed because the tracker is not updated correctly.

If this is true can you please fix it. I'd hate to have to switch back to Azureus.

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Ahh, this would be a nice feature to add into uTorrent. The ability to change what client type it sends to the tracker.

You might be able to hex edit it to make it say BitComet or something, but that would be a bit hard.

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You might be able to hex edit it to make it say BitComet or something, but that would be a bit hard.

I believe you would be talking about using a proxy, not hex editing, but hey, it's still not a good idea. If such a feature were implemented in µT it would result in it getting banned from some sites, and with good reason IMO.

The second site mentioned, as someone else mentioned, is saying that an old beta of µT is banned (1.2.x IIRC). 1.3 is OK. Anyone want to tell me what the first site mentioned says? You appear to need an account to see the warning?

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nah.. dont know if i agree with you there.. ppl want peer id faking.. its easier that way in case of blocking.. and there are sites that block and the client stays blocked even if the bug is fixed.. thats why ppl implement peer id faking (in general) imho

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Well they obviously did something wrong in the first place to have been banned. If the new version fixes past abuses, then they can just alert the tracker administrators. As has been seen several times already, µTorrent was banned, and when new versions were released, administrators were willing to test again, and subsequently, unbanned the client.

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Ultima: As has been seen several times already, tracker administrators are often irrational and ban clients for no good reason. Peer ID faking would be a way of getting around this but I would instead suggest first listening to the admins - and confirming that they are wrong - then letting them know and (a) leaving the site or (B) fake peer ID through other means. This doesn't have to be implemented by the client directly you know, and implementing it only gives the client a bad name.

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?

Read my post again =P

Edit: splintax, just in case you didn't understand what I was trying to say... I was arguing against the addition of such a feature in µTorrent... I said so myself (as you pointed out as well) that one could try contacting the administrator of the tracker that banned (hypothetically) µTorrent.

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People using fake PeerID's should be banned, if fake PeerID's are implented. So a client that implements fake's PeerID's would be pretty useless. Why don't people get this? Look at the eDonkey-network....

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why go back to Az when you can just use the official v1.3?

Because the official v1.3 has a few problems concerning Partial Downloads (forced me to go back to BitComet)? The beta solves the problem as far as I can see, though.

I keep Azureus and BitComet around myself for contingencies involving weak torrents. Both of them seem to do somewhat better on weak torrents. Sometimes, I copy down the IP numbers that BitComet/Azureus manages to get and punch them in manually, one by one, in uTorrent.

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