Tracker inflation / seed count spoof tool

[Marty90]

Hi,

Do you know any tool for spoofing number of seeds for a public tracker ?

[Marty90]

Anyone got this one:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100817...tspoofing.com/

Or similar one ? the site is long dead and can't buy it anymore.

[sashiagustina]

hmmm interesting, but i only interest how to spoof number of seeds for private trackers. what's for fooling public. it is just feels cruel to prank someone.

[Marty90]

It's not for pranking, i just need it to make my torrents little more visible to not be buried under ton of other torrents.
They are very well seeded from my seedbox'es. I can even pay for it.

[anon]

This request has surfaced several times, and the conclusion is that while these programs do exist (fake torrents that gather "thousands" of seeders in a few hours are proof), they're private and there has been little interest on creating a public equivalent.

If you want to know more, and are able to compile some possibly functional source code, see http://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?t=15586.

[sashiagustina]

one of thing that i hate from public tracker is 99x seed feels like 1 seeder. LOL. super slo-mo download. but yeah cant argue to public tracker since it's free. (+free bonus of virus and malware also)

[sigduwksnsksis9283]

(+free bonus of virus and malware also)

unless your using dead or known sites for these which is mostly kat and tpb you should be fine considering others have rules.

[anon]

"Public trackers are slow and filled with malware" is an old and discredited meme, just like downloading a CAM of the latest Hollywood movie and ending up with porn. Connection speeds have increased over the last 15 years, and indexers are moderated by both their staff and users (who can report bad torrents), so fakes don't last long.

Spoiler :

So slow, and it was infected with Win32/CoronaVirus.A

[flightcrank]

you can just use several instances of a ratio spoofing program that will count towards the seeder count for a torrent. Just use an upload count of 0 f you dont want it to add to your ratio.

[anon]

you can just use several instances of a ratio spoofing program that will count towards the seeder count for a torrent.

Most ratio tools have multi-torrent support and cannot load duplicate instances of a torrent with the same info_hash, or use UDP trackers for that matter. For single-torrent programs (e.g. the old RM 1.9.2) and the few public trackers that use HTTP, this method does work, but won't scale well.

However, some UDP trackers also support HTTP. You could script mktorrent to create X dummy torrents, where X is amount of fake seeds you want, then use mitmproxy to intercept requests and rewrite the info_hash to your torrent's... perhaps other parameters too, depending on client emulation. Hacky, but doable.

[cirulilu]

Why would you want to promote your torrent uploads on public trackers. What is the benefit?
You include some affiliate urls in them or maybe even something malicious?

[anon]

I can think of two reasons.

1. He's uploading malware, adware, cryptominers or similar, and wants to create the illusion of legitimacy and popularity so that more people will fall for it.
2. His uploads are good, but don't get a lot of snatches because people prefer other, more popular torrents. Therefore, he wants to fake having a large amount of seeders to be on equal grounds with those that actually have them. Sneaky, but well-intended.

Of course, I don't approve of no. 1, but I don't think he'd tell us the truth in that case

[sigduwksnsksis9283]

If it's number two, anyone would be happy considering 1337's curry shit only the mini encodes often get more seeders and the good encodes are usually not seeded. so in case he wants those to be seeded this is a nice way since many just go through "most seeded".