How to cheat on ratio-based torrent sites

by paran0id on Feb.06, 2006, under english, net

So yea, i got tired of those stupid websites where you got to maintain a 0.5-1.0 ratio or your account gets kicked. Not that i am a leecher but it’s pretty dumb to have that kind of policies when we’re talking about free peer-to-peer file sharing and, when you sign up on website like this, you always start by downloading (and not seeding) which puts you on a disadvantage. Also, on these websites, you can never upload torrents until you’re a ‘power user’ (which means: 1.0 ratio or above), so… all in all, even though ratio can be a good way to keep out those who only like to download, leechers, it can also be a pain in the ass for those who want to share but they can’t because the torrent has 500 seeders and 10 peers.

So, this settled, i figured a way to download the stuff without adding the ‘downloaded traffic’ to my ratio. :)
Basically, i download the torrent, let my client (Azureus) connect to like 40-50 (depending on the amount of existing seeders, obviously) and a few peers and then edit the torrent tracker URL to something like ‘http://no.track.er’ and voilá! i got my file and my ratio untouched. ;)

Then… of course, too boost a little bit your ratio you’d want to seed the torrent, right? So, you delete the torrent from your client (in Azureus: Remove -> Delete Torrent File); redownload the torrent and open it with azureus for seeding. (in Azureus: Open -> Torrent file… (for seeding)) and that’s it.

Everyone is happy. Well… not everyone but, who cares.

57 Comments for this entry

Mille
January 26th, 2007 on 1:51 am
Hi, after the new update, it doesnt work anymore :*( It just stop downloading. Please help me :|
Mille
January 26th, 2007 on 1:51 am
Hi, after the new Azureus update, it doesnt work anymore :*( It just stop downloading. Please help me :|
Rawr
February 25th, 2007 on 10:17 pm
Well, Mille, it wouldn’t. This is 2007. A lot of cheaters wouldn’t work anymore…a lot of pompous admins have figured out how to screw up the code. I can respect the fact that people shoud share and all that, but to be quite honest…the ratio thing is ridiculous. And as certain folk here said: it doesn’t affect the upload in any way, the “cheat codes” don’t rob the people of uploading…STUFF IS STILL BEING UPLOADED! It’s just the ratio. And they’re right. Why pay for something that should be free? On bittorrent, you don’t necessarily need TONS of banwidth, so what overheads do these folks need? I fit was a server, I could understand a donation, but these guys are just liitle porks with a 99.99 cable plan wanting to make money so they can jerk off with a champagne bottle instead of a beer bottle! I use everything, so it don’t matter whicever way, but to EVRYONE who hits and runs, from the selfish leecher to the selfish admin moneygrubbers…you are the same thing! BURN IN HELL!
Gonzo
March 9th, 2007 on 11:30 am
Here are the two programs that can modify the ratio:

1. Latest version, supports only one torrent at one tracker, at given time.
File: R1.rar
DownloadLink: http://rapidshare.com/files/20143763/R1.rar
File-Size: 162 KB

2. Not up-to-date, but supports as many torrents from as many trackers as you want, at given time.
File: R2.rar
DownloadLink: http://rapidshare.com/files/20144534/R2.rar
File-Size: 256 KB

They do not require installation, just extract the archives in some folder, that you created for them.

They do not download, nor upload anything.

So, download the torrent file whith as much leechers as possible. Open it in the program, set download and upload speeds at reasonable values and start using it.
Raving leech
March 12th, 2007 on 12:38 am
All this stuff about ratio etc. etc. and how to cheat, it’s all so complicated, but Azureius is easy to crack, just by changing a line of text in a file, no problems no backlash, does the job, but Azureus has too many other issues to use, I have XP 64 Bit and Azureus hangs my enet connection after 10 to 30 minutes, tried all sorts of fixes and settings but still does it. I’m now using uTorrent, it’s interface sucks, but it works. I do seed but I can’t leave my PC on 24/7, that’s what it takes to get a good ratio.

It’s not my fault I have 10 Mb down and 0.5 Mb up, my average DL speed on torrents is something like 100 KBs, I usually DL at least 2 Files, and as I need my bandwidth for other things I usually set the upload to 20KB. SO that ratio is as about 20 times, so do I Seed for 1-2 days for each file? Not effin likely, but I do seed for a few hours, which gives others a chance to complete their torrents, this ratio stuff sucks, as long as people send and receive files until they get the whole thing, then a bit more, what’s the issue? There will always be enough Seeds until the torrent is too old.

It’s all bollox and oh so easy to cheat.
laughing at leechers
March 26th, 2007 on 4:41 pm
well well. leechers trying to justify themselves!

you want the REAL facts? here they are….
if you dont share to a 1:1 you are a leecher.
dont argue that its stolen material anyway so us that share to a 1:1 have nothing to complain about, thats rubbish
you are getting the material as well, dumbass. and its not all illegal. people who get public torrents like linux distros and game trailers etc are not doing anything illegal!
what if you bought the film and it got scratched? perfectly legal to dload it so you can watch it again!!

if i take 300mb, and give 300mb to the next joe, and he gives that 300mb back to the next joe and so one, we all get and give, we share! thats what bittorrent works and how it is supposed to provide decent dload speeds
because everyone gives back as much as they take

if people stopped giving to the next joe the next joe cant take. then it comes back to you because no one is giving back because its too difficult.
then the whole point of the bloody bittorrent fails. IDIOTS!!

then you come here and whinge about it when its YOU that is spoiling it. dont you think 95% of people have grossly asymmetrical connection speeds? like 10:1 etc
you whinge how can i upload with the crappy upload speeds my isp gives me
yeah, like mine, 1MB dload and 50KB upload, like everyone else!

so, why do it?-
you cheat the download process so you dont have dload stats, but you claim you are still uploading to others.
excellent
so if you are arguing that you still upload to others and share to a 1:1 ratio, whats the problem with having those download stats as well? you still have to download it whether it records you data or not
and if you still share and upload to other like you claim you do, what is the point of using exploits to avoid the download stats????

i’ll tell you what the point is, so you DONT have to share to a 1:1 ratio, therefore you are not sharing.

i say the people who find these exploits are probably clever IT people. you have to know how it works to exploit it
why not put that decent brain of yours to better use?
instead figuring out how to cheat a system that they claim actually does no harm to the swarm
whatever
matrix
April 15th, 2007 on 8:21 am
if u hate ratios so much why not start ur own private tracker with no ratios or rules and see how well it does.