August 11, 2008 by sharky
[DISCLAIMER] — The purpose of this article is not aimed to teach people how to hack their ratios on private trackers. A simple Google search will provide much more information than what is written here. We do not condone nor recommend doing this. Not only will you quite possibly jeopardize your account, but more importantly it’s discernibly negative for filesharing in general. It is selfish and slows down speeds for other users, not to mention a gamut of other baneful side effects. It is with our utmost sincerity when we say we hope that everyone who cheats gets caught and banned.
With this article we bring forth awareness, and probably from what you’ll read - deterrence. Is that because ratio hacking on private trackers doesn’t work? No, it’s not that. It works TOO well - the results from our testing were obscenely lop-sided and so blatantly obvious that they’d be impossible for tracker staff to ignore - if they were looking, that is.
Only a fool would ever try to hack a ratio on a private tracker that you cared to keep - upper-echelon sites such as ScT, TL (and an enormous list of others) have scripts to look for this sort of activity, and there’s no second chances for members who get caught. Although we generated some amazingly eye-popping ratios, you’ll likely get busted, and as they say, "it’s Bye Bye Kansas". These were not the trackers we chose to use for testing.
The Source
We didn’t do any Google searching to find modded/hacked BitTorrent clients - we didn’t have to. We turned to the true authority on this - http://www.sb-innovation.de. They cover almost everything hacked, from eMule leechermods to One-Click Hosters to a wide assortment of BitTorrent clients (µTorrent, Azureus, BitTorrent™, BitComet).
The Clients We Tested
For our testing, we chose to use:
— uTorrent 1.8 RC2 SBI Leecherpack (which contains 19 different modded µTorrent 1.8 clients that cover a variety of desired results). Some of these we tested; others we did not.
— uTraitor v3.1 SBI (Vista Compatible) - Contains 4 uTorrent clients:
- uTraitor Stealth (no download and upload report. Not shown in peerlist and no snatchlist entry).
- uTraitor Stealth v2 (no download and upload report. Not shown in peerlist and no snatchlist entry). Coded in a different way.
- uTraitor No Report (no download and upload report. Works on all trackers and no snatchlist entry).
- uTraitor Download as Upload (Reports Download as Upload and doesn’t affect ratio. No snatchlist entry). - We tested this one.
Test Results:
To generate accurate results we needed to eliminate certain variables that could affect the outcome. For this, we chose to sign up to 3 brand-new private tracker accounts. Also, we only downloaded one torrent from each tracker, and ran them in 3 different ‘hacked’ BT clients. We also needed to select "non-freeleech" torrents to assure there’d be accurate data being recorded to the tracker (in both directions). After letting them run for 3 consecutive days, here are the results:
Test Tracker #1 - Pretome
Test Tracker #2 - Ozone-Porn
With Ozone-Porn we decided to be a little more aggressive, so we opted for a "Multi" client from the µTorrent SBI Leecherpack. Our download was not recorded by the tracker, and the upload was reported at 13.96 GBs (when in fact it was only 138 MB). Obviously this would raise some serious eyebrows in the event that they were looking for unbalanced accounts, especially since we only ran one torrent.
Test Tracker #3 - TorrentZilla
TZ was a great candidate for this, since there’s a substantial number of leechers on most of their torrents. Unfortunately it worked a little TOO well, as you can see for yourself. Again, we ran just one torrent, and somehow managed to get almost 322 GB uploaded on the tracker, when it fact it was a mere 2.87 GB. Such a ridiculously lop-sided ratio would most certainly sound the alarm bells, had they been looking.
Anonymous BitTorrent with "No Report" / Stealth Clients
As a side note, there is also an option to use a "stealth" client - a hacked version of µTorrent - that doesn’t report your IP address to the tracker (i.e. "no report"). While your ratio will be a "wash" (0:0) on the torrent, the implementations for anonymity are exceedingly positive, especially since there are IFPI/MPAA/RIAA spies logging the IP stats of nearly every popular public torrent. We wouldn’t endorse using a stealth BitTorrent client on private trackers; however, it’s not a bad idea for public sites such as mininova, thepiratebay, Isohunt. Especially when used congruently with IP blocklisting such as PeerGuardian.
Look for No Report/Stealth uTorrent clients contained within these packages:
— uTorrent Expansion SBI Leecherpack v5 (based on uTorrent 1.7.7)
— SB-I Faze Mod - A multi-client BT with changeable fake-upload and stealth mode:
[LAST WORDS] — While after 4 days of running hacked BitTorrent clients, we were not banned by any of the trackers (yet). Having said that, anyone with even the slightest iota of common sense should not attempt to hack their ratio on a private tracker. Sooner or later you’ll get caught, and it’s a known fact that many trackers are connected to each other. Try this on one account and you may find yourself banned from other trackers that you never cheated on. Is it worth the risk? No way. Ratios are imposed to prolong the health of a torrent and the tracker. Get yourself a seedbox and do it honestly.
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