@[email protected] to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 2 years agoPSA: The popular leech client Stremio got an upgrade to spoof other clients than TorrentStorm.github.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1157
arrow-up1157external-linkPSA: The popular leech client Stremio got an upgrade to spoof other clients than TorrentStorm.github.com@[email protected] to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish23•edit-22 years agoThere are more ways to detect than peer ID. This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it’s mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish16•2 years agoThat. Is. Hilarious. I always block anyone that pops up as torrent storm since I never get any data from people on that service
minus-squareNorah (pup/it/she)linkfedilinkEnglish17•2 years agoMe, using a private tracker: Nope, don’t see them.
There are more ways to detect than peer ID.
This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it’s mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?
That. Is. Hilarious. I always block anyone that pops up as torrent storm since I never get any data from people on that service
Me, using a private tracker: Nope, don’t see them.