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sigh, after rereading that keepfrds post, this sentence stands out:
The reason why PTer and LeagueHD choose to spend more effort on developing that much unique features that other nexusphp trackers don't have, rather than on anti cheating, is probably because they also understand this. hopefully all trackers understand this. :wink2:
There's another reason I forgot to mention. Most trackers rely exclusively on donations to cover operational costs. In the early days of What.cd, staff had a cheap server (paid for with said donations) that was used 1. to download torrents on a throwaway account and inject upload into the then-emerging site economy, 2. as a VPN server to provide security, the OiNK bust still fresh in everyone's minds. Despite the fact both could be reasonably considered legitimate, this still caused an uproar when word got out. Now imagine the reaction if it was discovered that staff on KeepFRDS, or anywhere else, invested users' money into creating an infrastructure to "send random data block requests and catch cheaters"...