Trying to enforce artificial tracker-centric limits is pointless. Leeches and "freeloaders" can mod Azureus and other OSS BT clients to bypass/ignore artificial restrictions like 'private flag' and ratios. For ratios/leech-ban, anyone can mod an OSS client to make it report an arbitrary yet plausible upload count, a simple form of which could be U(n) = U(n-1) + k1 * (0.5+rnd()) * (D(n) - D(n-1) + k0). (where 0 = rnd() = 1 and k0/k1 are used to tweak the simulated traffic profile)... or even simpler than that, append an extra random digit to the upload volume and the ratio magically goes from 1:10 to 1:1.
This is definitely informative for me
:) Anyone with knowledge on how bit torrent limit upload/download ratio through tracker? I'm also curious on how you mod an OSS client mentioned in InvalidError's post. I'm not going to mod my bittorrent clients but I'm just really curious how to go about doing it. I believe in sharing as this is the way to keep torrents alive and strong!
;) Well, if you don't want to post publicly, you can send your comments/replies to me at raffles_tony[at]hotmail[dot]com.
