BitTornado developer bans BitComet users

Monday, Jan. 8 2007 | Author: Griffith

It looks like the war being waged because of very popular BitTorrent protocol is spreading beyond the legal battles. BitTornado developer, John Hoffman, has decided to ban BitComet users from accessing his client due to BitComet’s misconduct and misuse of the protocol.

âWhen BitComet games super-seed, it induces the seed into thinking that the BitComet peer is very efficient at spreading data. As a result, the peer downloads faster than the rest of the peers, and typically doesnât share that data as efficiently, costing the rest of the peers a lot of download time.â

It’s a bit sad that the developers can’t work together and take the protocol further. I guess that there always has to be someone willing to take someone’s good will. If you are using Windows I recommend uTorrent, it’s small, light, simple and effective, and features all of the latest BitTorrent-related technologies.

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7 Responses for "BitTornado developer bans BitComet users"

Sonojinshi

January 9th, 2007 at 5:43 am
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uTorrent is indeed fantastic and small.
Punnchy

January 9th, 2007 at 6:24 am
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From my personal experience, bitlord seems to be the best client I’ve used thus far.
Storm-92

January 21st, 2007 at 12:05 am
3

Anyone ever consider the fact that most Internet Service Providers LIMIT YOUR UPLOAD BANDWIDTH? Ask anyone. Your download bandwidth given to you by your ISP is equal to or in most cases exceeds your upload bandwidth. So of course you’re going to download faster than you upload!! Its the nature of the internet beast.
I’ve tried several bittorrent protocols over the last 6 years (including BitTornado) and EVERY single of them either tripped too many ports and my firewall cut it off or my ISP cut it off on their end. BitComet was the only one I could get consistant download speeds that exceeded my upload speed (which is the way it should be)without tripping too many ports. Maybe you should check your code and not ban others for using a protocol that fixed your mistake and made things the way they should be!!
Why limit the speed at which people can download based on their upload speeds? Not only is BitTornado a pain on the leechers but its also a pain to us seeders because we can’t get it out quickly for our other seeds to distribute. I seed torrents all the time, I’m not just a leecher. BitTornado is a BAD DEAL for both seeders and leechers because of the limits. I say go ahead and ban the BitComet users, we don’t want the BitTornado users slowing everyone down anyway…
Storm-92

January 21st, 2007 at 12:47 am
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I don’t see where you’re coming up with the idea that BitComet is causing misconduct and misusing the protocol anyway. When the BitTorrent protocol was first developed by Bram Cohen back in the mid-late 90s I do believe it was an OPEN protocol, meaning there were no limits. If I’m not mistaken the protocol is now maintained (but not owned) by bittorrent.com and therefore it is still an OPEN protocol as Bram Cohen intended. This ban is simply a reflection of your ignorance, and in my opinion, unjustified. I’m sure several other users especially BitTornado users will realize that when they can’t connect to any seeds. All this ban is going to do is upset the current BitTornado users and force them to switch to a different bittorrent client which will ultimately bring BitTornado to an end. Good Luck John, I think you just shot yourself in the foot on this one buddy…
Storm-92

January 21st, 2007 at 12:47 am
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I don’t see where you’re coming up with the idea that BitComet is causing misconduct and misusing the protocol anyway. When the BitTorrent protocol was first developed by Bram Cohen back in the mid-late 90s I do believe it was an OPEN protocol, meaning there were no limits. If I’m not mistaken the protocol is now maintained (but not owned) by bittorrent.com and therefore it is still an OPEN protocol as Bram Cohen intended. This ban is simply a reflection of your ignorance, and in my opinion, unjustified. I’m sure several other users especially BitTornado users will realize that when they can’t connect to any seeds. All this ban is going to do is upset the current BitTornado users and force them to switch to a different bittorrent client which will ultimately bring BitTornado to an end. Good Luck John, I think you just shot yourself in the foot on this one buddy…
Storm-92

January 21st, 2007 at 12:49 am
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I don’t see where you’re coming up with the idea that BitComet is causing misconduct and misusing the protocol anyway. When the BitTorrent protocol was first developed by Bram Cohen back in the mid-late 90s I do believe it was an OPEN protocol, meaning there were no limits. If I’m not mistaken the protocol is now maintained (but not owned) by bittorrent.com and therefore it is still an OPEN protocol as Bram Cohen intended. This ban is simply a reflection of your ignorance, and in my opinion, unjustified. I’m sure several other users especially BitTornado users will realize that when they can’t connect to any seeds. All this ban is going to do is upset the current BitTornado users and force them to switch to a different bittorrent client which will ultimately bring BitTornado to an end. Good Luck John, I think you just shot yourself in the foot on this one buddy…
Storm-92

January 21st, 2007 at 12:51 am
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sorry about the multiple comments…my bad…said there was an error posting and to press post again in a moment…Webmaster please edit and delete as you see fit..