cheaTorrent

Overview

This is the source tarball of a few simple tweaks to ctorrent. It requires knowledge of how to compile programs and run them from the command line. The people tech savvy enough to use this are likely able to falsify their ratios anyway.

With that said, this bitorrent client has an 'evil' set of defaults. It will not upload to peers, reports back that it has uploaded ~70% of what it has downloaded, immediately closes once downloading is complete, and spoofs it's user agent to a known popular client. This is the default behavior, although some of it can be changed on the command line

There are three reasons I made this:

• Show that upload stats are worthless for determining level of infringement. They can be set by the users themselves.
• Show that private trackers are relying on obscurity to ensure people have good ratios. The underlying mechanism used is flawed.
• Many private trackers have ridiculous ratio requirements. This side steps that issue.

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Source Code

Conclusion

I didn't change any of the command line options, but would if there was any interest. Also I may, one of these years, add the capability to falsify reported download.