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BakaBT => Need Help? Ask Here => Torrent/Tracker Issues => Topic started by: bit385 on August 16, 2008, 10:04:54 PM
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hi, i'm new on forum (and on site too), so, hello to everyone.
i've downloaded a few torrents (mostly small, with ost and manga) but almost all the time the uplink speed is 0. no one is leeching from me, ok, so what torrent to download and seed?
another question, regarding my torrent client, after the download task completes, if there is no connected leechers, it disconnects and doesn't seed anymore. i'm using bitlord (bitcomet is full of ads, utorrent is messed up with riaa, and vuze is simply bljah).
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uTorrent is up against the RIAA?
Thats news to me...
As for the upload speeds, check your preferences to see if they are limited in any way
as for the second problem, I have no idea, as I don't use bitloard
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utorrent is messed up with riaa
i've never heard that before
bitlord=evil. use utorrent or azureus
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Well done. BitLord is a version of BitComet with spyware added. Enjoy.
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I'm sure that if uTorrent was associated with the RIAA, then a good majority of box would be either jailed or sued
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... because the RECORD INDUSTRY is really interested in anime...
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I was going on the assumption that most of us download music along with our anime, though I do realize I forgot to mention that. My bad ;)
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For the record, uTorrent is owned by BitTorrent Inc., which has links to the MPAA and RIAA.
There is a test you can use to determine whether your client is reporting data to either party: Wireshark. It's a packet sniffer.
Also, I should point out: a fansubber works for the team that develops this software.
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i've been reading on some forums (don't know what because i'm not registered on any) that quite a few people in america and germany were prosecuted because they downloaded films or music (copyrighted of course) with utorrent. i don't think that with downloading anime you could be prosecuted, but better stay on alert.
regarding bitlord, it doesn't have spyware, or mine does not (i use it over 1 year, scanned a million time with adaware and nothing).
upload speed is not limited, when i was downloading ghost in the shell the upload was all the time at 80-90% speed (around 35-40 KB/s, i have a slow internet connection in uplink).
everyone has its point of view, mine is that. tried azureus, bitlord, bitcomet, utorrent and vuze, utorrent is the best but because of the thing i mentioned above i'm not using it.
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i've been reading on some forums (don't know what because i'm not registered on any) that quite a few people in america and germany were prosecuted because they downloaded films or music (copyrighted of course) with utorrent.
You don't think their ISP had anything to do with it?
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i don't know. i'm not much in all this, i've just read that they were prosecuted because of utorrent, and never asked myself how come did that happen. and since i download new films and a lot of music, i wouldn't like to be arrested for piracy, although i know that in croatia there's no such law and noone in this part of the world had any problems because of downloading anything.
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Of course the ISP helps. In some cases, they might even be paid off as an agent of the copyright holder which is what the MPAA does with comcast for some movie titles. <-- someone in my area got nailed to the wall with that method
It's unfortunate that it is hard to stay with the older tools since even the torrent format itself seems to be evolving gradually. My old open source Azureus 2.5.0.4 still feels safer than the closed-source unknown-executable version of uTorrent owned by the RIAA/MPAA under their BitTorrent holding corporation. It is up to you to determine if they have a backdoor installed that if they are going to prosecute, they will turn it on (otherwise it remains off?).
Anyways, I was lamenting to myself since just today, I found another boxtorrent torrent that would not run under Azureus 2.5.0.4 so it is getting harder over time to test/examine torrents. I may have to give in and use BITCOMET (since that is not owned by the RIAA/MPAA) despite my dislike of it.
You see it all the time. Look at mplayer which had been taken over by some entrepreneurs in hungary. Will the RIAA/MPAA co-opt that product eventually? Their hopes for an online one-stop-shop in the future will need a comprehensive player like that which is under their corporate control. Anyways, the new "volunteers" for mplayer have been actively trying to remove the open source copyleft requirements so that they have control over the new product. It seems sort of like the VUZE and uTorrent story where people find a product that needs to no longer be open source or have open copyrights in order for them to develop it into a product they can sell to some large corporation.
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For the record, uTorrent is owned by BitTorrent Inc., which has links to the MPAA and RIAA.
There is a test you can use to determine whether your client is reporting data to either party: Wireshark. It's a packet sniffer.
Also, I should point out: a fansubber works for the team that develops this software.
Hmm, sounds interesting. I think i'll go check this out
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Lol, even if you get wireshark do you even know how to read packets?
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I took a networking class a while back, although I have a feeling this isn't going to help...
Anyone wanna give me some help? :D
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There should be a tutorial on how to use Wireshark on the uTorrent forums somewhere.
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I had this little problem and solved it....
After being down for a night I reconnected to the net with a new DNS address, hence the torrents I was seeding before weren't seeding anymore :(
solution : generate a new passkey and redownload the torrents I was seeding ^^ works perfectly :D
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Your DNS should be fixed... or you'd never be able to resolve any addresses.