Vuze Imminent Blacklisting - The Repercussions

**TD21** · 28.02.10, 17:29

Originally Posted by anon

uTorrent 1.6.1 or 1.7.7?

Has there been any bannings due to 1.6.1 or 1.7.7 spoofing with VEM @ what.cd?

**Blocker** · 28.02.10, 18:47

Originally Posted by classyboy

If spoofing Bittornado, all that needs to be done is to enable "Perfect Spoof by Ghostfucker" and just select the latest Bittornado from the dropdown. Bittornado doesn't need those entries for peerid and all. So does anything else need to be done. Of course I assume, that the settings in the other cheating tabs below are optimum. But from spoofing point of view, does anything more need to be changed

It's not a good idea to spoof Bittornado on What.cd due to the fact that is blacklisted

**saebrtooth** · 01.03.10, 05:57

ut 1.61
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**anon** · 01.03.10, 16:59

Originally Posted by DOPE

ut 1.6.1 is still whitelisted on both? i know bitmetv, but what.cd aswell?

I think yes.

**Grambo** · 02.03.10, 09:56

How important is writing a peer-id for µt 1.6.1 in VEM?

**anon** · 02.03.10, 17:04

It only makes spoofing a bit safer. But you can not use a custom ID if you want, and the mod will work just fine. In short: it's recommended but not essential.

**Grambo** · 03.03.10, 01:49

Since my trackers tolerated me scraping with Bittornado spoof (when you could), without a ban. It should be safe enough.

**anon** · 03.03.10, 17:10

You were taking a risk... the real BitTornado doesn't even have scrape support.

**Grambo** · 03.03.10, 18:15

I know now. Didn't know then. I don't do that anymore.
My point is just That they tolerated even that.

**saebrtooth** · 04.03.10, 13:43

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Pending Ban of Deluge and Vuze/Azureus2010-02-18 00:21:28
Waffles, working together with What.cd, has concluded over the course of several months, that Vuze and Deluge are problematic to the overall health of torrent swarms.

Deluge, through careful testing, has been discovered to download a significantly higher amount of data per torrent than comparable clients.

Vuze, on the other hand, has been increasingly used by ratio cheaters through various modifications to the program. We are aware there's a handful of legitimate users, though, thus we are making this announcement. Effective Monday February 22, both clients will be banned from both sites. If you continue to use either program past this date, you will not be banned from Waffles, but your ability to seed and leech will cease (and you will only get a message to switch clients from the tracker) until you choose new torrent software.

For Windows, if you don't want to use µTorrent for some reason (though we highly recommend it!), we do allow the official BitTorrent client, along with the latest versions of BitComet and BitTornado. If you do choose µTorrent, we highly suggest using version 2.0 or later. Using 2.0 will allow you to take advantage of the new uTP technology, which connects to peers faster, is home router friendly, and doesn't overload your system connections like other torrent clients. The downside to uTP is that outdated clients that don't support it will get lower priority when connections are made. If you use one of these older clients, we recommend that request the authors of those clients add uTP support.

On the Mac, we suggest Transmission or µTorrent Mac. Currently on Waffles, the 1.8.x branch of Transmission is banned, as we've discovered some instances where it may misrepresent transfer stats, but we are working diligently with the Transmission developers to correct this problem.

Finally, for Linux, we suggest Transmission, rtorrent, or ktorrent.

We know that this will upset a few of you, but we believe that we must do this for the betterment of the community as a whole.

Edit Feb. 26: Deluge 1.2.1 has been whitelisted.

It seems like Waffles and What.cd have finally made the decision to bann not only Vuze but Deludge too.