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<blockquote data-quote="jawbroken" data-source="post: 86597" data-attributes="member: 14372">You can argue that only a few people will use it all you like, it just means that you are acknowledging that it has a negative impact but try to hide that behind all the other people who are using bittorrent as intended and not working around the system. It is similar to the reasons that a lot of private trackers ban BitComet, it doesn't really explicitly cheat, but it does lie to peers, breaks superseeding mode for the entire swarm (as your left to right mode will also impact), requests peer lists from the tracker much more often than the tracker specifies, etc.I don't think there is anyway a tracker would know that you were downloading right to left, so you couldn't be caught out or anything. So I guess it comes down to more of an ethical or moral argument. Personally, since bittorrent provides such an excellent distributed peer network to me, I am happy to wait the extra couple of minutes and abide by the bittorrent specifications. Other people may consider those extra minutes too high a price to pay for being fair.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jawbroken, post: 86597, member: 14372"] You can argue that only a few people will use it all you like, it just means that you are acknowledging that it has a negative impact but try to hide that behind all the other people who are using bittorrent as intended and not working around the system. It is similar to the reasons that a lot of private trackers ban BitComet, it doesn't really explicitly cheat, but it does lie to peers, breaks superseeding mode for the entire swarm (as your left to right mode will also impact), requests peer lists from the tracker much more often than the tracker specifies, etc. I don't think there is anyway a tracker would know that you were downloading right to left, so you couldn't be caught out or anything. So I guess it comes down to more of an ethical or moral argument. Personally, since bittorrent provides such an excellent distributed peer network to me, I am happy to wait the extra couple of minutes and abide by the bittorrent specifications. Other people may consider those extra minutes too high a price to pay for being fair. [/QUOTE]

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