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An increase in bad seeds on Bit Torrent? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I've been grabbing a few shows I want to watch reruns of while playing Balatro that don't have good blu ray releases. My piracy is fairly limited these days so I don't bother with private trackers (do have a VPN though). In the past, I never really had an issue with grabbing a few one offs off the popular, maybe honeypot, sites like rarbg and 1337x.

But over the past month or so, I've noticed I have gotten a lot of shitty files. Skips here and there or garbled colors for a scene or two. At first I though it was just a bad file since re-downloading the torrent had the exact same problem.

But, on a whim, I did a recheck and had to download like 40% of a torrent. And then 20% the next time. Which made me assume my NAS was fucked or I was dealing with a lot of packet lsos (... I AM dealing with a lot of packet loss from my ISP). But when I redownloaded a "known bad" torrent I had the exact same corrupted file.

So am I just REALLY unlucky? Or is there an epidemic of shitty/malicious seeds on the public trackers these days?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Without context, I would suggest Transmission for troubleshooting. Qbittorrent is bloating and weird on Windows.

The torrents should be hashed, but that wouldn't stop someone from making a bad torrent or seeding one.

If someone made a file intentionally collided it would probably cause issues. These aren't collision issues, but bad chunks of data.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/76043/torrent-bad-seed-attack-by-sony-how-does-it-work

At a peek, it seems that this attack only causes delays in downloads. It's more possible that there are commonly shared files with similar issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Qbittorrent just gives you options you can choose if you use qt 5 or qt 6 and the version of libtorrent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there any reason not to use the latest version of libtorrent?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

i think some people had some problems with it. but don't know exactly what that was because i never had any problems.