Tracker Ratio Cheating ‘Online App’ Now A Reality

January 04, 10 by sharky   18,099  views  

Traders. Scammers. Invite Sellers. Cheaters. If there aren’t already enough ways to wind up banned at private trackers, there’s a brand-new online app that can help you achieve your goal. Move over, uTraitor - RatioCheat is a clientless webservice that allows users to upload their .torrent files to build fake ratio statistics on private tracker accounts.

Disclaimer: In no way, shape or form does FSF promote ratio cheating whatsoever. If you choose to use RatioCheat, assume the distinct possibility of being caught; and thus promptly banned on your tracker(s) without warning. Private trackers have sophisticated methods of catching such behavior.

 

Before everyone posts comments such as, "so then why did FSF choose to make this info public? This is scandalous!" - the answer is two-fold:

 

1. For anyone dumb enough to use RatioCheat or any other method to falsify data; let this be a stern warning. It is not worth the risk. Then again, for those of you who do (and eventually get caught) - then you weren’t worthy to use private trackers in the first place. Consider it a form of ‘culling of the herd’.

 

2. To bring awareness to private tracker sysops & staff that such a tool is publicly available, and to take appropriate action.

How it works:

RatioCheat is a Python script that simulates uploaded data to private trackers in order to increase your overall site ratio. In contrast to certain modified BitTorrent clients which can report unrealistic amounts of uploaded data, RatioCheat will only go as far as 1.0 on a torrent. For example; a torrent with a data size of 1.38GB will only report 1.38GB "uploaded" to the tracker.

While the process takes only 10 seconds to complete, results are not instantaneous as seen through the tracker account stats. Usually at least one full announce cycle has to be completed first.

Does RatioCheat really work?

According to the author on the RatioCheat Blog, it *should* work with most trackers (especially those based on TorrentBits source code), although in our own tests we achieved very limited success. We tested it on about 20 different trackers and found RatioCheat to be effective on only a handful; including these older (and larger) trackers: Cheggit, PureTNA & Empornium - all of which are based on the original TorrentBits code. It is also said to work with Demonoid (why even bother?), although we were unsuccessful in our attempt.

Smaller, more obscure (newer) trackers didn’t fare so well. We generated a success rate of 0% on 15 different tested trackers that use either TBDev, TorrentStrike (TS SE) or BtiT/XBtiT source code - thus it would indeed appear that the majority of private trackers are safe (at least for now).

Alarmingly, RatioCheat worked on all three of our ‘test’ Gazelle trackers that we tried it on (JamBands, NorTV & PM5.com) - so this is definitely something that Gazelle sysops should be watching out for. Torrents that are not reported as "snatched" (but were physically downloaded) which also report upload data should be fairly easy to spot.

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88 responses for this post

  1. 01   •   george Says:

    Another tool for cheaters. What is this world coming to? Hope this article helps trackers catch these cheaters. Just follow rules and you be fine.

  2. 02   •   Spring Says:

    Unbelievable. Is it really so hard to just seed back 1:1?

    FFS, most private trackers won’t penalize you if you don’t achieve 1:1 so long as you leave the torrent seeding for a fair number of days.

  3. 03   •   wtf Says:

    may all cheaters burn in public tracker hell

  4. 04   •   SHARPIE Says:

    Scammers like yoctogon?

    lol…

  5. 05   •   speechless Says:

    just seed……..its free

  6. 06   •   K. Amigos Says:

    Cheaters amongst Stealers. No such things as honor between pirates…

  7. 07   •   sharky Says:

    I guess it will those Romanians.

  8. 08   •   julzx94 Says:

    @ K AMIGOS: I believe you mean Cheaters among Copiers. Here’s a handy guide:
    http://nynerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/piracy-is-not-theft.gif

  9. 09   •   shinkiro Says:

    What’s to stop someone from downloading a .torrent file, downloading the actual data, stopping the torrent and then using this method? The torrent would report as “snatched”, since it really was.

    And what about people who find an identical torrent on one site, download the data, then upload it to another site using that site’s .torrent file? Many people do that to build their ratios on sites where seeding is difficult and the initial “buffer” ratio is low. It would look exactly as if they had used this site.

  10. 010   •   erf Says:

    >> just seed……..its free

    WRONG. ever heard of electricity bills?

  11. 011   •   erf Says:

    but anyway, anyone that uses this ‘ratiocheat’ service will definitely be banned on any decent tracker.

  12. 012   •   blurg Says:

    I’m happy with Shu Mod for Azureus.

  13. 013   •   erf Says:

    ^LOL

  14. 014   •   znix Says:

    This is too funny. Go ahead, use it and instantly alarm bells will go off at all well run private trackers, effectively banning you permanently and shit listing your IP(s) with any other trackers you may have membership at.

    Not worth it at all.

  15. 015   •   GTFO Says:

    i used it on a lot of site, its gozuuu.

    very good yeah yeah yea

  16. 016   •   hmm. Says:

    Most people know that when you get banned at one private tracker, your information is given to about 40+ private trackers at once through IRC, and with proof of misconduct, the person is banned from all of them.

    Go ahead and use this, we’ll find you eventually, we always do.

  17. 017   •   DVD Says:

    Thanks for promoting ratio cheating, Sharky! This info is NOT helpful for the bt community if you share it with the user population! Perhaps you should have quietly share it with staffers in the community only!

    Your logic is not sound. More public knowledge of these ratio-cheating methods only INCREASES the amount of cheating that goes on! The point that it makes trackers more armored to deal with the cheaters is invalid!

    It is better for the user to not ratio cheat in the FIRST PLACE, and for them to simply FOLLOW tracker rules, you know! Having them ratio-cheat and then be cut off is a two step negative process!

    Have you considered that they could become a GOOD user if only they go though a process of being frustrated and then finally read one of the many great tutorials on tracker forums on how to keep a good ratio?????

    Geez sharky, why don’t you think through these things sometimes? From now on can you please share ratio cheating methods ONLY with staffers? You’ve done it SEVERAL times here now! you know where to share the into to reach staffers, you know the places, you know how to pass on the info.

  18. 018   •   RiGGER Says:

    @DVD

    Please get your head out of your ass.

    If sites adjust to ban this method, then more cheats gets banned and therefore we have a better bt community.

    Those that will try and cheat surely ar’n't worth having on private trackers…..

  19. 019   •   DVD Says:

    @RIGGER. Sites could adjust to this method if sharky JUST told them, couldn’t they?…therefore, there is almost zero benefit (but definite disadvantage) to also sharing the info here.

    And sites that care about preventing cheating happening would be in the loop and would likely be reachable by sharky who would know where to share this info with staffers…and would likely be friends of other staffers who in turn would share the info with them anyway.

    I’m also only thinking about the bt community RIGGER…just think about it for a second. My logic seems to make sense to me…

  20. 020   •   RiGGER Says:

    Hmmmm,

    Apply the following.

    Give them enough rope to hang themselves….

    ;)

  21. 021   •   Gonzo Says:

    What’s PM5.com? This domain doesnt exist…

  22. 022   •   .bird. Says:

    Haha I promise you that the developers of RatioCheat will steal your Passkeys and use them to ruin your ratio instead :P

  23. 023   •   Aj Says:

    J

  24. 024   •   Aj Says:

    Haha man these priv trackers they stole copyrighted content and use other’s work for making money and they never stop blabbering about banning those who stole from them no1 gives a damn about ur sucky rules u cheat other’s content how the hell u can stop others from cheting u

  25. 025   •   fuku Says:

    Thank you for promoting yet another cheating tool. Not the first time FSF - you could have told tracker admins in secrecy rather than making an advertisement here lol

  26. 026   •   akram Says:

    so the other day I was checking the top 10 list in IPT, and found something alarming, a guy with the name mohammed a new memeber toping most of the top lists, and is uploading at 1.4TB/sec. his account was disabled, but it’s clear he is from the middle east like me, this is alarming to me because people in my region are doing this, I hope we don’t end up banned on some trackers just because of some idiots… :(

    I just wonder why cheaters cheat, they know they will get caught, so what’s the point really?

  27. 027   •   .bird. Says:

    “I just wonder why cheaters cheat, they know they will get caught, so what’s the point really?”

    There’s a lot of cheaters who doesn’t get caught! There is acutally cheaters that are good at it and doesn’t cheat with 1TB/s uploads. Many cheaters have normal stats like everyone els and only cheats when they have too. So don’t think everyone is so stupid that they cheat with GBs or TBs per second!

  28. 028   •   Sharky Says:

    @ fuku

    …you could have told tracker admins in secrecy rather than making an advertisement here lol

    Yeah, sure. I have nothing better to do with my time than send messages out to 1,000+ trackers in secrecy. Figured this would be the best way to make the majority of them aware as quickly as possible.

  29. 029   •   8787224 Says:

    I don’t think there is someone who still write cheat methods that is obvious to caught! on any tracker with closed sighnup.
    I am sure this site was founded to attract cheaters and caught them.
    Probably by private trackers staff lol

  30. 030   •   troll Says:

    this is the fucking dumbest thing FSF have ever posted.

  31. 031   •   Banme Says:

    Shu Mod FTW :)

  32. 032   •   Hishtori Says:

    So? Ratio cheating has been around for ages, and this sounds pretty much the same as ratiomaster.

  33. 033   •   nkfy Says:

    sharky this is not a very “good” info … will be more good if this article will be deleted…

  34. 034   •   ToTaL Says:

    Most newer sources will auto ban once a cheater tries like my source as soon as the tracker sees this behaviour going on the offender is instantly banned. Just makes me laugh when i read some new cheat method as seeding 1:1 isnt really that difficult and most sites don’t even require you seedback 1:1 as long as you have seeded for the necessary time thats normally enough some trackers are 36,48 and 60 hrs. If you can’t deal with that just stick to public sites.

  35. 035   •   anon-sbi Says:

    Anyone stupid enough to use this probably deserves to get banned. And you want to know why? By uploading the .torrent, you’re giving them your passkey. They can then use it to leech files on your account, with the obvious ratio drop and possible ban due to different IPs. Assuming what sharky said is true:

    “although in our own tests we achieved very limited success. We tested it on about 20 different trackers and found RatioCheat to be effective on only a handful”

    I’m not surprised, even though this article is obviously biased. They already have what they want, so why should they bother to do the cheating?

    This is probably a honeypot. There are way better ways to cheat.

  36. 036   •   Ripper Says:

    Go ahead you bastards, we have a nice hammer behind the door waiting for you. (i mean it ; -) )
    oh and yes, i’m sure you’re smarter than eeeeeeeeveryone else and no one will realize that you’ve done.

    PS: lol

  37. 037   •   Nutman Says:

    I really wish sites wouldn’t post stuff like this.

    As much as people like to believe most cheaters are caught, most in fact will never be caught. If you have half a brain while cheating, sites will almost never catch you.

    Please stop showing people how to cheat FSF.

  38. 038   •   derp Says:

    You’re uploading your passkey to this random site, I wouldn’t be surprised if people started getting their keys stolen by whoever is running it.

  39. 039   •   Big Dogg Says:

    Thanks for the tip bro, I usually have to sign up for a new account at PureTNA everytime I want a load of porn. Now i can just use 1 account with this hopefully. Cheers

  40. 040   •   Shoop Says:

    if the tracker is providing copyrighted material, you can’t really complain about cheaters

  41. 041   •   Oromis Says:

    Quick everyone keep bitching!

  42. 042   •   heiur Says:

    cheating is so lame….still people who complaint about been having stolen passkeys i feel sorry for ur knowledge….

    Most reputed trackers have reset passkey option…thats not an issue.issue is doing cheating itself…..

  43. 043   •   random Says:

    This does no longer work on NorTV

  44. 044   •   Oromis Says:

    I am gay

  45. 045   •   .bird. Says:

    Okey, thanks for the information OROMIS! ;)

  46. 046   •   NOprivate Says:

    private trackers are not in the philosophy of file-sharing. bit torrent protocol was set up to include DHT, peer exchange etc. All this is not encouraged by private trackers. In a closed community it can be mathematically impossible for ALL members to maintain the required ratio. People can either donate or use freeleech(if available). freeleech trackers are rare. No wonder so many people cheat. try reading posts on sb-innovation[dot]de

  47. 047   •   Dexter Says:

    I’ve just tried this on what.cd and got banned.
    It doesn’t work

  48. 048   •   Oromis Says:

    This is lame, i use better things for cheating.

  49. 049   •   quix0te Says:

    Fucking Romanians.

  50. 050   •   Admins FSF fuckings morons? Says:

    You all fucking idiots, use cheats = ban, your choise

  51. 051   •   Leester Says:

    Thanks for the post Sharky. I tried it and it doesn’t work on PiN (who the hell would be stupid enough to cheat on a ratio free site anyway though). TBDev ftw.

    Oh and lol at that idiot who got banned at what.cd.

  52. 052   •   doodoo stain Says:

    Wahhh, Wahhh ratio cheaters aren’t sharing my copy written material… STFU BITCHES

  53. 053   •   SYS OP Says:

    thanks for the heads up ;)

  54. 054   •   noneed Says:

    Better solution. Find a good ratio free tracker and do min seed. eg PTM, GFT & TDS or get on a ratio based with either seed and/or IRC bonus eg TV, ScL or iPT. Easy to keep nice buffers and ratios and no need to cheat on any of these trackers!

    Seems ppl wanna cheat on lame trackers that have no bonus system in place ie read as trackers that prefer you to donate $$$ because you can’t maintain ratio on them. Those ones are all about the money and ppl will keep inventing new ways to cheat the business aka money making trackers. Two sides of the same coin.. cheaters & scammers. lmfao

  55. 055   •   Brian Says:

    It worked for all my torrent sites short of Torrentzilla, but I didn’t get banned there anyway.

  56. 056   •   Me Says:

    WHy the hell did you guys even provide a link to this shit? Yeah, talk about it, and I know all too well that you guys are capable of passing this onto those that matter and all that, but why post a link? So more people can cheat the suste,? Bravo! idiots…

  57. 057   •   CUL8R Says:

    [i]@ fuku

    …you could have told tracker admins in secrecy rather than making an advertisement here lol

    Yeah, sure. I have nothing better to do with my time than send messages out to 1,000+ trackers in secrecy. Figured this would be the best way to make the majority of them aware as quickly as possible.[/i]

    Crystal clear Sharky, after saying that don’t even bother to tell us that you do this “for the community” and that you “care” about BT ethics, you just want to attract more readers by posting crap for youngsters and n00bs, no matter what.
    [b]You know perfectly well that you could have mailed this to only 5 tracker sys-ops such as TL/PtN/AL/SCC/CoE and they would have passed on the info to the other trackers, don’t play n00b with us[/b]

  58. 058   •   CUL8R Says:

    [QUOTE]@ fuku

    …you could have told tracker admins in secrecy rather than making an advertisement here lol

    Yeah, sure. I have nothing better to do with my time than send messages out to 1,000+ trackers in secrecy. Figured this would be the best way to make the majority of them aware as quickly as possible.
    Sharky (Author)
    [/QUOTE]

    Crystal clear Sharky, after saying that don’t even bother to tell us that you do this “for the community” and that you “care” about BT ethics, you just want to attract more readers by posting crap for youngsters and n00bs, no matter what.
    You know perfectly well that you could have mailed this to only 5 tracker sys-ops such as TL/PtN/AL/SCC/CoE and they would have passed on the info to the other trackers, don’t play n00b with us, at least be honest

  59. 059   •   Beagle Says:

    @058…. Yeah, we all know that if we don’t talk about theft it won’t occur. lol

    Security through obscurity is not security at all. It’s better that anyone and everyone know about that site, and any others like it. Anyone with half an ounce of common sense would know not to use it, and that it’s likely just a phishing expedition to gather your tracker passkeys. Anyone not possessing that half ounce will get everything they deserve.

  60. 060   •   Gustav Says:

    join atomico-torrent.com

    0day | ratio 0.60

  61. 061   •   Dreamer Says:

    it works fine on Open bittorrent. confirmed :D

  62. 062   •   merric Says:

    Worked for me on What.cd :)

  63. 063   •   rob Says:

    “In no way, shape or form does FSF promote ratio cheating whatsoever. ”

    didn’t you just do that you ignorant bastards?

  64. 064   •   MelvinMeow Says:

    I believe the people who invented instant Diarrhea were intending for it to be used as something to help people who were constipated relieve themselves.
    In the end result its more used for practical jokes… people pour it into someone else’s cup to see the “end” effect.

    While you “say” your intentions are to benefit other BT sites… in reality talking about this tool here would lead to them getting banned surely. But the end effect is going to be more people attempting to use this tool or try and make it more accurate.

    P.S. You can add my site to the list this tool doesn’t work at.

  65. 065   •   Bean Says:

    I use it all the time and i think its great

  66. 066   •   tracker sysop Says:

    Speaking as sysop on one of the more popular private trackers I can confirm as has already been mentioned that staff from ALL the biggest and best trackers DO share cheaters names/ips/emails etc via an irc channel. Get caught at one, get banned from them all.
    Oh and by the way, we’ve been aware of this site for a while now and it is VERY detectable. We already have scripts in place. One announce from this piece of shit site and your account is auto disabled.
    Have fun :D

  67. 067   •   RT Says:

    join Rapid Treggy, open sign ups
    http://www.rapidtreggy.com

  68. 068   •   ruibensaude Says:

    TRACKER SYSOP:

    Suck my Balls…

  69. 069   •   fREESHiT2010 Says:

    SBi ftw!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!11!!1111!!!!!!!!/l

  70. 070   •   Mayor Says:

    Cheat… banned.
    We all have systems in place to find you and mercy is never given!

  71. 071   •   No Says:

    L O L @ people saying “he should have just told the admins, not the community as a whole!”

    Right, he’ll just send an individual PM to every admin to every fucking tracker out there, even if he’s not a member. So are you people born this retarded or was it a learned behavior?

  72. 072   •   SomeWhoCares Says:

    WARNING: This cheat on TorrentLeech results on auto ban!

  73. 073   •   Unknown Says:

    Trackers => Cheating .. So when u cheating..u get cheated back. :P every action has a reaction :P

  74. 074   •   pirateX Says:

    Cheating is goog against pay-per-leech trackers. Fuck to these all private trackers.

  75. 075   •   suckitup Says:

    all of the baby’s need to change there shitty dippers. i think sharky did amazing thing. he made this public knowledge he did no more harm then a simple google search damn it….. i can’t believe people are so blinded by their ego and so afraid about cheating why don’t u peel ur eyes off ur screen and go get some daylight…. so lets spread the word and advertise about cheating because its a OMG a secret <—-i’m being sarcastic if u didn’t get it…so all u admins stop crying over spilled milk and put a nipple on that bottle.

  76. 076   •   iBldTraffic Says:

    Those bitching about Sharky’s article, especially those making it personal, have their heads very, very far up their asses…

    Since when does a writer/author/site owner owe a sysop/admin anything, let alone a “private warning” or hand-addressed f’ing letter. He just did YOUR job…and you’re complaining?

    A couple of points:

    1. I would bet the % of admins to “consumers” at this site is less than 10%- so who pays this sites bills? Admins? sysops? yeah, fucking right…I’m sure they’re big donators as well. (What they do not seem to be is advertisers…)

    2. Based on point 1 above, while the content of this site may apply to both consumers and admins, again-the admins are not the ones paying the bills, the consumers are.

    I didn’t come here to read a private admin newsletter, I come to read current, cutting edge news in a niche I’m interested in. Save your bitching for your next conference and stfu already… you have much more to worry about (RIAA, ISP’s, Gov’t) then some f’ing software…

  77. 077   •   Hotfile Links Says:

    I wouldnt use this lol, but I must admin that it is helpful for those with low ratio’s

  78. 078   •   Evil Russian Says:

    Aren’t we all in this together…? If you don’t want to seed then don’t download…

  79. 079   •   o.0 Says:

    Why even write an article about it

  80. 080   •   garagisti Says:

    very very sad… if only the coders used their brains to come up with something more creative :(

    Think MAFIAA… those bastards are on our assess all the time, sniffing if we shit funny… why not use your talent for something good?

    just my 2 cents worth…

    cheers!

  81. 081   •   ETIV DUP WANT Says:

    tried it on pornbay and peerportal.. doesn’t work.. bummer

    bitsoup is next

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  83. 083   •   highlife Says:

    I personally think that this kind of reporting does more harm than good. you people really should use better judgment as to what you post on these blogs. In the name of “having the right to know” , you’ve basically introduced to the bittorrent world this piece of crap go ahead and cheat it’s OK… garbage! Don’t trackers get enough abuse without your support? very shameful indeed…

  84. 084   •   t4nk Says:

    Hmmm… I am glad this was posted. Information like this needs to be for all to see, even n00bs. You have 2 types of n00bs.

    Those that will read this and think “Hmmm, apparently cheating is a bad thing, and using this could get me banned. I think I’ll just try and give back what I leech”.

    Then you have those that will see this and think “I am so l33t they will never catch me! screw actually putting in ANY real effort in keeping a good ratio. I’ll just LEECH LEECH LEECH!…blah blah blah etc etc”.

    The ones in the 2nd example, will not survive on any good trackers. I hear people cry all the time”My connection sucks…I’ll never meet ratio requirements!”
    That is total b.s. You are just too damn lazy to figure out how to gain ratio. Read FAQ’s. Invest alittle time in finding neat tricks to increase your ratio. Don’t be stupid and download huge files right after joining.

    Common sense will keep your ratio in good order. Otherwise, go ahead and cheat, cuz we will ban you…we don’t need cheaters, we need sharers.

  85. 085   •   Rayann Says:

    At last! Somoene who understands! Thanks for posting!

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