March 12, 2009 by sharky
Private tracker sysops & admins may have a brand-new headache on their hands with Ratio Faker. Self praising, "Ratio Faker can help you keep a good ratio in private bittorrent trackers." Actually, Ratio Faker is a new third-party utility that can (and probably will) assist you in getting banned from your favorite private trackers. It works through your existing BitTorrent client by reporting inaccurate upload and download stats to the tracker, thus boosting your ratio. Hey, at the very least you’ll go out with a good ratio, before finding yourself unable to login.
Ratio Faker
Ratio Faker works through an HTTP proxy (127.0.0.1) which must be set in the BitTorrent client, say µTorrent. Once this is changed, run Ratio Faker and use the same port number.
Randomized Upload Ratio
Unlike GreedyTorrent - which doesn’t allow for users to select a random modification ratio, Ratio Faker will report a random value between a pre-configured set of numbers. It offers the possibility to generate a random value in every announce, like in a real BitTorrent transfer scenario. In theory, this would make it much more difficult to detect.
Does it work? In a word, yes. We tested it with both uTorrent and Vuze, and it successfully does report the downloading torrents as ’seeding’ on the tracker. Because of the randomness, actual stats varied.
Will it get you banned? We’re really not sure, but it’s not worth the risk.
Should you use Ratio Faker? Not a chance. Do it the honest way, like everyone else - BitTorrent is for sharing, not cheating. If you’re looking to become a seedwhore, go out and get a seedbox.
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