Topic: BitCoinTorrentz.com - Torrent Download Service - page 18. (Read 57203 times)

Thats what I thought it might be actually. One scenario that I did confirm the bug with was if someone initiated a download, and then another person initiates the same torrent before the first had completed. In that case, the server would just serve up the unfinished files when it sees the md5 in the database. I'll do some more debugging and see if I can get to the bottom of it.  

haha, maybe they all have the same md5sum

Damn. I thought I had it fixed. Can you PM me with the status link of the torrent you were downloading? I'm trying to find some kind of common denominator between the torrents that this is happening with.

Doesn't have much to do with luck. You can still buy shares, there's always someone selling (if glbse is up). I increased my bitcointorrentz stash by 30% in the last few days. Thanks to all sellers

This bug is sttill alive. I got .!ut files just minute ago.

Sounds like a good month. Congratulations to all you lucky investors!

Earnings report for November 16th - December 16th:

Monthly Earnings: 31.33339 btc
Total Dividend: 9.400017 btc
Dividend/Share: 0.03133339 btc

Monthly Investor ROI: 15.7%
Total ROI after 3 months: 34.9%

Total Users: 126 (this month: +59)
Total Downloads: 726 (this month: 319)

I am currently waiting for the transfer to GLBSE to be confirmed, after which I will make this months payment. Thanks to all the investors and to all the users of this service for their continued support.

It is worth noting that uTorrent by default does not add this extension, you have to enable it in the Preferences.

While the files are being downloaded, the BitTorrent client may append .!ut to them to indicate that they are not yet completely downloaded. µTorrent, for example, does that.

So, if you want to download the files and see that they still have the .!ut ending, do not download them yet. Wait until the .!ut extension is removed and disappears, then download the complete file.

Do not believe the indicated lengths of the files either. Many BitTorrent clients pre-allocate the files with their full length, but fill the content with garbage or zero bytes at first, before beginning to write the final content into the files piecemeal. The BitTorrent client used by BitCoinTorrentz uses this method also, so the files, while still being downloaded, always show their full, final size.

"!ut" ??

Just happened to me, so not yet fixed. Luckily I know the meaning of !ut, otherwise I might have downloaded a couple of Gigabytes of garbage.

http://www.bitcointorrentz.com/index.php?page=status&idkey=bdm8saw6nc

that's a status-link she gave me. I'm not 100% sure it's from that download, but 80% sure. maybe it helps

one throwaway email adress to create an account.
they supposedly do NOT keep ANY logs, which of course you can never be sure of.
they were pitched by falkvinge, I trust him to only advocate cool companies.



another idea, tho: how about a TOR network site?

nice, they take bitcoins. Assuming they don't need your contact info and don't store your IP?

https://airvpn.org/

SSL certificates are expensive. I could create a self-signed certificate that would allow encrypted connections, but it would throw up trust warnings to end-users and may scare them off. Also, the download speed would be reduced somewhat if you were downloading via https, and it would put a greater load on the server - especially if several people were downloading via SSL simultaneously. So the short answer is no, but the long answer is maybe in the future, when the service has more capital behind it and is able to afford a more powerful server and a legit ssl certificate.

SSL would be a fantastic addition to the service though, I do agree. It would take care of the last and final weak link in the chain - the ISPs. But what is currently on offer is still a lot better than downloading torrents from public trackers yourself via the bittorrent protocol. Because as already discussed, ISP's do not actually do any of the legwork themselves. It is the rights groups who collect this information, not the ISP. As long as they are out of the picture, that is about 99.5% of the job done.


ISP's in germany restricting nameserver choice is scary. I suppose there might be a rational argument for doing it. It could be to prevent malicious 3rd party alterations to your local nameserver settings by certain viruses etc that would redirect you to their own clone site after entering the url of a sensitive website (such as online banking) or something along those lines. I suppose that would be the rationale they are using to defend it, but at the same time, I do not like it one bit.

And the worst part is that it is being done in such an underhanded and sneaky way, meaning that people can not object fairly to the change. If it was truly for the benefit of the end-user, then they would trumpet it as a new security feature not hide it under the carpet. Most regular users would have no idea of the potential privacy implications anyway. Have they released any kind of press statement? Probably not, I would imagine that it is all there in the TOC that we all so frequently skim over.

She wasn't turned off at all. I introduced her to Bitcoin at the same time (she knew some basics: what bitcoin is roughly) and she totally likes both techs. The intro took like 20 minutes (used electrum). She unterstood how to use it, how addresses work, why she should use a new one every time, even how to reconstruct her wallet. Did everything herself. I sent her some money and then she used bitcointorrentz to download some legal file. She didn't give me the link yet, not online that much.

Germans are big loaders and the lawyers really started ramping up their fear-business in 2011. I never had  a case in my surrounding until summer 2011. Now I know of 2 cases and a lawyer specialized in this purview told me they where extending this business. I ran some numbers, they're definitely making really good and easy money on this scheme and some rights holders probably earn more this way than for showing the movie in theatres (at least for bad movies, that might be the case)


thanks.


lol. you definitely said it way cooler than I did.



I think the reason for them recording IP, but not downloads and/or other stuff is (at least in the jurisdiction I live in (germany)), is the fact that they are obligated to record the IP adress, but not the other stuff, which is probably even prohibited. I remember a big discussion couple years ago (maybe even almost 10 years) when new laws where passed making IP address recording obligatory for ISPs. They might since have turned even more evil by themselves: big providers here in germany (axis of evil) are starting to transparently redirect nameserver traffic (port 53) to their own nameservers (I've seen it, it's true, german telekom does it at least in some networks), thereby silently taking from you the liberty to run your own NS for resolving (at least the liberty to do it easily, you can still tunnel your way to freedom if you have a server somewhere that has no such problems). I wonder where this shit comes from and I dont like it at all.

I'll post the link from the bug aa soon as i get it from my brothers sisters neece in law.

I've noticed on a couple of occasions that when I bookmark that status link page I get a link like this:

http://www.bitcointorrentz.com/index.php?&page=status&idkey=

ie the idkey is missing.

This happened today, though I'd already placed the correct download link into Bitcomet to download later once the download had finished, so I could trace it back (I had to trace it back becasue I didn't realise that it was a multiple file download so initially I just downloaded index.html)

Hmm. This has happened a few times now I think. I've been looking through the code to find any potential causes and I'm stumped. The only thing I can think of is if the torrent has a strange character in the name. That might do it. Can you PM me the link to the torrent you guys were downloading so I can investigate further? I hope your sister (or sister in law?) was not turned off too much by the experience.


I think molecular handled your question well. I think I might have to hire him as my PR guy!

I'll explain it again anyway. Rights groups snoop on the torrent swarm (network of nodes sharing the file) for files that they are protecting the intellectual property rights of. They record the IP addresses of those seeding the file as well as lots of other information in evidence. They probably use customized torrent clients specifically designed for this purpose.

They do not have access to your ISP records however, so therefore are not privy to the things that you download via http. The vast majority of ISP's do not monitor your downloads, because the cost of sifting through every file downloaded by their clients to determine what is legal and what is not legal would be too great. Also there may be significant privacy issues in doing that, so it is a legally murky practice, and any evidence produced may be questionable in a court of law.

Http downloads are much much safer from a privacy perspective than torrents because only you, the server you are downloading from and your ISP know what packets are coming down the line to you. If you use torrents, due to the public nature of the technology, every node in the swarm can see exactly what you are doing, your IP address, how much of the file you have, and how fast you are uploading and downloading. All the IP rights groups have to do is sit permanently in the swarm and observe everyone who connects, obtain your identity from your ISP using your IP address and very soon after, you receive a letter from the MPAA or RIAA threatening you with legal action or hefty fines and your ISP may follow suit and disconnect your service.