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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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[–] Teknikal@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Teknikal@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Lampin@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They still exist, just look up ratio cheaters. The SBI forums have some more info. Here’s a link: http://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35592-qBittorrent-4-5-4

[–] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Worked back then. Would not recommend today.