IPTorrents - Cracking Down on Banned Clients, Cheaters

[Daniel]

Who would have suspected IPTorrents to become a safe haven for cheaters using modified clients to inflate ratio. Certainly not yours truly - IPT has to be one of the easiest trackers to seed on (seedbox not required). In fact, I refuse to load their torrents locally in uTorrent since they consume too much upload bandwidth - it?s nearly on par with public trackers. But widespread ratio-whoring on IPT? Will an impeccable share ratio on IPT finally land you an invite to coveted FtN once you take that pretty screenshot to prove you?re an irreplacable asset to the BT community? Likely not.
Below is a short excerpt from IPT?s recent announcement on May 15th, regarding "modified clients":

Dear Users

Recently we are seeing more and more instances of ?suspect? information sent to our tracker.
We believe this is due to an increased usage of modified torrent clients.

These modified clients have been changed with the specific intention of sending false information to trackers in an attempt to inflate the upload amount recorded and increase the users ratio.
Whilst it is possible to use these modified clients without cheating, the fact that you have a modified client means you have the ability to cheat should you so choose.

We have updated our ?Anti Cheater? routines to identify all instances of modifed client useage.

On a serious note, IPT (as easy as it is to seed on) is rife with cheaters from India, Israel, Egypt, certain Romanian IPs, and wherever else that many trackers are already wise to. It?s good to see that IPT finally updated their allowable BitTorrent client list; something that hadn?t been done in what seems like years. Just a hunch, but cheaters and the ilk will have to mosy on over to TorrentDay then, since there?s yet to be a similar announcement.
IPTorrents/TorrentDay Connected?

Perhaps I?m talking out of my ass, but I?m suspicious that TD and IPT are run by the same company (as opposed to traditional private trackers that have real sysops & staff - "company" being the keyword here). Read on.
IPT and TD have uncanny similarities - both are hosted in Russia with IPs next door to each other (IPT @ 95.128.242.250, and TD @ 95.128.242.230). Coincidentally, on or about March 18th both sites went offline at the same time, and when they resurfaced both had simultaneously relocated to PRQ hosting in Sweden (in the same datacenter - again, side by side with nearly identical IPs). For reasons unexplained, this relocation didn?t last long; both IPT and TD have now returned to Russian hosting using the exact same IPs before the switch to PRQ. That, and other coincidences.

Daniel Reviewed by Daniel on 5th Jun 2010. IPTorrents - Cracking Down on Banned Clients, Cheaters Who would have suspected IPTorrents to become a safe haven for cheaters using modified clients to inflate ratio. Certainly not yours truly - IPT has to be one of the easiest trackers to seed on (seedbox not required). In fact, I refuse to load their torrents locally in uTorrent since they consume too much upload bandwidth - it?s nearly on par with public trackers. But widespread ratio-whoring on IPT? Will an impeccable share ratio on IPT finally land you an invite to coveted FtN once Rating: 5

[Jungleboy]

We catch most cheaters on our site, user limit is 10k and most of them have been banned by now so every suspect anounces are easily inspected manually and most cheaters are pretty obvious because they report unreal speeds.

Any site serious about this should have no problem identifying them.

[thatswhatshesaid]

that's a good step taken by IPT..

TD and IPT from same company?
that's news to me.

[SalmanAbbas007]

Ooo Nice! thanks for telling us

[vizoomer]

Old news ? ..

[tweed187]

i Been on iptorrents for a long time with a ratio over 2 and today its says my account has been disabled.no warning of anything i might have said or done!so what now?do i change my ip ans sign up again?this is just wrong.

[Exel]

Good thing my ratio is over 25 1tb uploaded baby

[m107]

i Been on iptorrents for a long time with a ratio over 2 and today its says my account has been disabled.no warning of anything i might have said or done!so what now?do i change my ip ans sign up again?this is just wrong.

no need to change ip, just register under another name.

[Amz]

My ratio is good i'm safe

50 something.

http://screensnapr.com/u/i/y75sv0.png

[TLK]

I got 4Tb uploaded