Hi, I was wondering how they do this and if there is a way to “cheat” the amount of data you are downloading or seeding.

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    1 year ago

    It’s possible but eventually you will get banned I remember a torrent client that let me multiply my seeding by 100 I did use it back when file list was a thing.

    That said I can’t ever remember seeing anything similar since.

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      There is no reason that this should be possible on a private tracker. Public trackers, yes. Private ones need user authentication to let you download anything so it’s trivial to track the ratio at the same time.

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        1 year ago

        Filelist org while it no longer exists was a private tracker and I can absolutely say the cheating ratio client completely worked.

        While I’m not proud of keeping myself ratio balanced that way (I had a very tiny upload compared to download) I can absolutely say a hacked uttorrent client kept me well above ratio at the time.

        It worked well although I kinda glad I haven’t seen similar mods sinxe