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1 stars
Version: BitComet 0.68
"Absolute trash that has no place in BT communities"
Pros: NAT traversal(though you can't beat actually opening ports for incoming connections)
Cons: Fixed! jk. They say that every release. While the stats reporting issue is history, many more to go. The BT protocol is get if you give, which means sometimes the seed may also require you to pass a piece to another peer and report back. Bitcomet does this whether you have or not, pretty much infecting the swarm with false information, It will often disconnect from clients then reconnect to unfairly gain speed as new connections are temporarily preferred for sending data to. It ignores the private flag for DHT as well as that reenabling itself after tracker is unavailable for more than a few minutes. This is dangerous for the communities of private trackers, as well as to you. Private torrents are embedded with your personal passkey and DHT allows hash sharing and even the total transfer of a torrent file, including your passkey! Yes, if this happens, some leecher can essentially download as You and ruin YOUR ratio. So many argue chances are small of this, but is any chance worth using a client like this when there are so many out there? Thought not. PS-Nothing you upload therough DHT counts on your stats. Bitcomet at least fixed that. I see in 0.68 no evidence of further steps in the right direction so 1 star.
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