rolltroll247 0 Posted ... Just found out what.cd is permanently banned from the ip's under most Canadian servers. Just a head's up. Quote Share this post Link to post
eyes878 43 Posted ... Aren't what.cd trying to block VPNs, or was that someone else?EDIT: Most private trackers seem to want VPNs banned - I think it's to prevent account sharing. Quote Share this post Link to post
Guest Posted ... EDIT: Most private trackers seem to want VPNs banned - I think it's to prevent account sharing.This and also stupid thinking from their admins. Quote Share this post Link to post
manjake 1 Posted ... I think it's impossible to accurately record upload/download from an individual user if they are potential sharing the same public ip address as other users Quote Share this post Link to post
NaDre 157 Posted ... EDIT: Most private trackers seem to want VPNs banned - I think it's to prevent account sharing.This and also stupid thinking from their admins. I think it's impossible to accurately record upload/download from an individual user if they are potential sharing the same public ip address as other users Private trackers generally allow VPN for torrent traffic, but not for browsing or IRC.It is because they want to be able to enforce a ban on problematic users. If you value your membership, it would be wise not to fight this. Quote Share this post Link to post
Guest Posted ... EDIT: Most private trackers seem to want VPNs banned - I think it's to prevent account sharing.This and also stupid thinking from their admins. >>I think it's impossible to accurately record upload/download from an individual user if they are potential sharing the same public ip address as other users Private trackers generally allow VPN for torrent traffic, but not for browsing or IRC.It is because they want to be able to enforce a ban on problematic users. If you value your membership, it would be wise not to fight this. I simply skip any private torrent site that doesn't allow a vpn to browse. Luckily few good trackers have the brain to allow it. Quote Share this post Link to post
zhang888 1066 Posted ... I think it's impossible to accurately record upload/download from an individual user if they are potential sharing the same public ip address as other users This is not true.Trackers credit your ratio by accumulating the requests your client sends every few minutes with your passkey.On private trackers, each torrent file is different and includes the member's passkey - a hash that binds the torrent id + member id. Your client then reports the ratio of each and every torrent to the tracker URL, the tracker frontend gets the passkey and updates the backend DB. Many trackers started banning VPNs and there are multiple articles about it on TorrentFreak, together with interviews with some tracker admins.Their excuse was that the DMCA and copyright actors are using VPNs to "spy" on those trackers. I am not sure how they know it, and howtrue this statement is (The same actors also use SSL, but you don't ban SSL because of this), but for now it's probably a given fact that VPNswill be blocked. The way to bypass it is just using less known servers, for example Air's Latvian servers are on residential IPs. 2 manjake and dcd reacted to this Quote Hide zhang888's signature Hide all signatures Occasional moderator, sometimes BOFH. Opinions are my own, except when my wife disagrees. Share this post Link to post
manjake 1 Posted ... I think it's impossible to accurately record upload/download from an individual user if they are potential sharing the same public ip address as other usersThis is not true.Trackers credit your ratio by accumulating the requests your client sends every few minutes with your passkey.On private trackers, each torrent file is different and includes the member's passkey - a hash that binds the torrent id + member id. Your client then reports the ratio of each and every torrent to the tracker URL, the tracker frontend gets the passkey and updates the backend DB. Many trackers started banning VPNs and there are multiple articles about it on TorrentFreak, together with interviews with some tracker admins.Their excuse was that the DMCA and copyright actors are using VPNs to "spy" on those trackers. I am not sure how they know it, and howtrue this statement is (The same actors also use SSL, but you don't ban SSL because of this), but for now it's probably a given fact that VPNswill be blocked. The way to bypass it is just using less known servers, for example Air's Latvian servers are on residential IPs.Ok, thank you for an informative reply. Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk Quote Share this post Link to post