Tracker Ratio Cheating ‘Online App’ Now A Reality

[cheatos]

Melvin haz a comment in which he confirms this stupid "tool" doesn't work on tophos
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[anon]

You're a bit late to the party

[SealLion]

ya, I didn't realize that I was late. I had a look around the filesharing news section and didn't see it . So I just deleted it(mine that is).
But ya...anyways..

[Vation]

Found the site by accidental search. It is online cheating service you upload .torrent file all the rest is set and done online. While digging deeper found it on FileSharingFreak(where else). It is obvious security risk to upload torrent files with your passkey to web service but you may try and have some fun on trackers you do not care about or look closely at the code used on mentioned site. It is worth to know about it. It is not necessary worth to use it. It might be worth to discuss it.

FSF:

How it works:

RatioCheat is a Python script that simulates uploaded data to private trackers in order to increase your overall site ratio. In contrast to certain modified BitTorrent clients which can report unrealistic amounts of uploaded data, RatioCheat will only go as far as 1.0 on a torrent. For example; a torrent with a data size of 1.38GB will only report 1.38GB "uploaded" to the tracker.

While the process takes only 10 seconds to complete, results are not instantaneous as seen through the tracker account stats. Usually at least one full announce cycle has to be completed first.

FSF:

Does RatioCheat really work?

According to the author on the RatioCheat Blog, it *should* work with most trackers (especially those based on TorrentBits source code), although in our own tests we achieved very limited success. We tested it on about 20 different trackers and found RatioCheat to be effective on only a handful; including these older (and larger) trackers: Cheggit, PureTNA & Empornium - all of which are based on the original TorrentBits code. It is also said to work with Demonoid (why even bother?), although we were unsuccessful in our attempt.

Smaller, more obscure (newer) trackers didn’t fare so well. We generated a success rate of 0% on 15 different tested trackers that use either TBDev, TorrentStrike (TS SE) or BtiT/XBtiT source code - thus it would indeed appear that the majority of private trackers are safe (at least for now).

Alarmingly, RatioCheat worked on all three of our ‘test’ Gazelle trackers that we tried it on (JamBands, NorTV & PM5.com) - so this is definitely something that Gazelle sysops should be watching out for. Torrents that are not reported as "snatched" (but were physically downloaded) which also report upload data should be fairly easy to spot.

The Torrent Ratio Cheating Blog link:
Torrent Ratio Cheating

[FSF]Tracker Ratio Cheating ‘Online App’ Now A Reality:
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[anon]

Another one late to the party

Avoid this "service".