| Looks like it is designed to punish those who slow uploads Looks like this version is designed to punish those users who configure their clients to do only downloads and either block or severely slow down uploads. I guess many people were worried about the legal danger of uploading copyrighted material and set themselves for downloading only - minimizing their legal risks. But, of course, this makes bittorrent less workable, so this new version is designed to shut out those cautious or nervous about legal risk.
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| One way to solve this is by designing a client that hides the users IP addresses. I never quite understood why my IP needs to be seen or is shown to other users. |
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 Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
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It's also designed to punish those with smaller upload pipes. Not everyone has 1+ MBPS up. |
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 vpokoPremium
join:2003-07-03
Boston, MA | reply to compton
said by compton:One way to solve this is by designing a client that hides the users IP addresses. I never quite understood why my IP needs to be seen or is shown to other users. Hiding it in the client doesn't really help - you can still see the destination IP address of any packet sent from your computer. |
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said by Morac:It's also designed to punish those with smaller upload pipes. Not everyone has 1+ MBPS up.
I agree, if had more upload bandwidth, I would share more of it. I am not about to give up 75% of my upload speed. More than me using internet in my household, plus I dont like high ping times for gaming. |
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yabos
join:2003-02-16
London, ON | reply to compton
Because then the internet wouldn't work at all. They don't have to have the IP address visible in the program but you can't hide an originating IP address with TCP data transfers. Just typing netstat in a command prompt you can find out the IP address you are connected to. |
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yabos
join:2003-02-16
London, ON | reply to Morac
My upload is about 85KB/s max and I usually set my upload to be 60KB. Browsing the web is unaffected. The remaining 25KB/s is enough for that. |
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 MxxCon
join:1999-11-19
Brooklyn, NY | reply to Morac
that's incorrect.
a torrent that does not have excessive upload capacity should not spend equal amount of time on low capacity clients.
high bandwidth clients will get data faster and will spread data faster.
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How would that work in a peer-to-peer system like BitTorrent? Beyond the tracker system, all of the data is shared directly between the client computers and to make that happen you obviously need to know the IP address(es) to connect to. |
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