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Disclaimer: torrents are a method of data distribution, this threads aims to discuss the torrent system, not files that may or may not be legally distributed by it.
Rant bellow, read at your own discretion.
I came across a torrent with a hostile peer. Damn asshole. I've downloaded 1.5GBs of data of which 577MBs were hashfails. In all my years of torrenting that was the first time it happened.
It doesn't help that the dumbass who made the torrent did so with 4MB pieces, making it all that much easier for the asshole to screw the whole swarm. It's a freaking 3GB torrent dude, you can easily use a piece size four times smaller ffs!
It never crossed my mind how easy it was to achieve such a thing. Just send tiny pieces of trash to a lot of people and watch the whole system crumble. What I can't get of my mind is why would anyone even do such a thing. If you're dumbass who wants to feel like a hacker there so many other more fun things you can do. This is so passive, nothing is accomplished, how this can be satisfying to a person is just beyond me. But then again, some people just love acting like assholes.
Has this ever happened to anyone around here? Should the bittorrent protocol suffer modifications to help dealing with this? Considering how rare this is I don't think so, but I was really surprised at how easily this can be done. That alone might be reason enough for a change.
Rant bellow, read at your own discretion.
I came across a torrent with a hostile peer. Damn asshole. I've downloaded 1.5GBs of data of which 577MBs were hashfails. In all my years of torrenting that was the first time it happened.
It doesn't help that the dumbass who made the torrent did so with 4MB pieces, making it all that much easier for the asshole to screw the whole swarm. It's a freaking 3GB torrent dude, you can easily use a piece size four times smaller ffs!
It never crossed my mind how easy it was to achieve such a thing. Just send tiny pieces of trash to a lot of people and watch the whole system crumble. What I can't get of my mind is why would anyone even do such a thing. If you're dumbass who wants to feel like a hacker there so many other more fun things you can do. This is so passive, nothing is accomplished, how this can be satisfying to a person is just beyond me. But then again, some people just love acting like assholes.
Has this ever happened to anyone around here? Should the bittorrent protocol suffer modifications to help dealing with this? Considering how rare this is I don't think so, but I was really surprised at how easily this can be done. That alone might be reason enough for a change.
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