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    Default Avoid hashfails or wasted data while downloading using torrent and be safe :)

    f you’ve been using BitTorrent to download any of the more popular files, such as the latest episode of some major TV show, you may have found yourself receiving lots of “Wasted” data or hashfails. This is data that has been discarded after being deemed corrupt or invalid by your BitTorrent client. Every so often, you will have received more wasted data than the size of the files you are downloading!

    This is happening because Anti-P2P organizations are actively polluting P2P networks with fake peers, which send out fake or corrupt data in order to waste bandwidth and slow down file transfers. At its worst, when downloading major copyrighted torrents, as much as a fourth of the peers you are connected to can be attributed to various Anti-P2P agencies. There is also a much more serious side to this. Once you’ve established a connection to one of these fake “peers”, your IP has been logged and will most likely be sent to the RIAA/MPAA!

    But there is a way to fight back! If you are using the latest µTorrent from(1.5 onwards), you can employ a little known feature called IP filtering. The author of µTorrent has gone out of his way to hide it, but it’s there nonetheless. But before we can activate this filter, we need to retrieve a list of currently known Anti-P2P organization IPs.

    This is most easily done by downloading the latest blacklist from Bluetack (the same people who wrote SafePeer for the Azureus BT client) at http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz. This list is updated daily, and contains all known Anti-P2P organizations, trackers and peers, aswell as all known Goverment/Military IP addresses as collected by the Bluetack team. Once downloaded, extract and rename the file to “ipfilter.dat” in preparation for the final step.

    To make the list available to µTorrent, you need to put it in %AppData%uTorrent. So type this into the Address Bar, or click Start -> Run and type it there. After placing the ipfilter.dat in this folder, start µTorrent and go into preferences (Ctrl+P), then click on “Advanced”. In the right hand pane, make sure that “ipfilter.enable” is set to true, and then close the dialog. That’s it for the configuration.

    You can verify that the list has been loaded by looking under the “Logging” tab of µTorrent, where you should see the line “Loaded ipfilter.dat (X entries)”.

    Congratulations! You are now protected against most of the garbage-distributing peers; and the likelyhood of the RIAA or MPAA knocking at your door has been substantially reduced! I’d go as far as to say that you shouldn’t be using µTorrent at all without this feature turned on! And even if the law enforcement side of it doesn’t bother you, you should still be interested in reducing the amount of garbage data that gets sent your way, which in turn leads to quicker downloads, and isn’t that something everybody should strive for?

    Here is the download link from piratebay.org
    http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/465...50.TPB.torrent

    I have also uploaded an attachment over here

    check this out

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    if u ask me its useless topic.
    1. i get hardly 1-2 MB hash fails for 700 MB files
    2. no 1 has got time here in India to reach your home and catch you.

    if at all they want to ban torrents , they will contact ISP's and not end users directly
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    Default It in someways helps your speed to get better

    Quote Originally Posted by talktoanil View Post
    if u ask me its useless topic.
    1. i get hardly 1-2 MB hash fails for 700 MB files
    2. no 1 has got time here in India to reach your home and catch you.

    if at all they want to ban torrents , they will contact ISP's and not end users directly
    @talktoanil
    I just gave a general information here and its not true that always you get 1-2MB hash fails it depends on the type of torrent you select and also the Anti-P2P organizations who pollute the torrent world . and if u can reduce hashfails you can somehow to some extend improve a bit of speed , and also you waste your bandwidth

    thanks for your comment

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    Quote Originally Posted by sangamam View Post
    @talktoanil
    I just gave a general information here and its not true that always you get 1-2MB hash fails it depends on the type of torrent you select and also the Anti-P2P organizations who pollute the torrent world . and if u can reduce hashfails you can somehow to some extend improve a bit of speed , and also you waste your bandwidth

    thanks for your comment
    dil pe mat le re what i mean to say is , this is not a serious issues as the article here points out

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    Default good info!

    as @talktoanil said we dont have to worry about the anti p2p organisations
    its true as far as india is concerned
    But its always good to be safe and also to avoid hashfails or wasted data that consume bandwidth

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    Default No yar ;) no problem

    Quote Originally Posted by talktoanil View Post
    dil pe mat le re what i mean to say is , this is not a serious issues as the article here points out
    well dil pe nahi liya re lol

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    this topic is very important,and no way it is useless.well done sangamam.because we live in india and the cyber police are dumb as rock,we may not have to worry about downloading copyright files.but the issue with hashfails and wasted data is a very critical one considering the small bandwidth we get here.and at times i have received like hundreds of hashfails on downloading latest music videos which are HDTV rip.utorrent has an in built filter for banning IPs which transmit just 64 Kb of bad data (i think).also the IP filter is a great filtering tool to ban "certain" IPs,if you know what i mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iorhld View Post
    this topic is very important,and no way it is useless.well done sangamam.because we live in india and the cyber police are dumb as rock,we may not have to worry about downloading copyright files.but the issue with hashfails and wasted data is a very critical one considering the small bandwidth we get here.and at times i have received like hundreds of hashfails on downloading latest music videos which are HDTV rip.utorrent has an in built filter for banning IPs which transmit just 64 Kb of bad data (i think).also the IP filter is a great filtering tool to ban "certain" IPs,if you know what i mean.
    you might get number of hash-fails , but it wont matter a lot when total data size is say 1-2 MB for per 700 MB file approx.

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    Default Thanks bro :)

    Quote Originally Posted by iorhld View Post
    this topic is very important,and no way it is useless.well done sangamam.because we live in india and the cyber police are dumb as rock,we may not have to worry about downloading copyright files.but the issue with hashfails and wasted data is a very critical one considering the small bandwidth we get here.and at times i have received like hundreds of hashfails on downloading latest music videos which are HDTV rip.utorrent has an in built filter for banning IPs which transmit just 64 Kb of bad data (i think).also the IP filter is a great filtering tool to ban "certain" IPs,if you know what i mean.
    Atleast some one likes it I'm happy for that . if u liked it you may add rep to this post

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    Default HEy @talktoanil

    Quote Originally Posted by talktoanil View Post
    you might get number of hash-fails , but it wont matter a lot when total data size is say 1-2 MB for per 700 MB file approx.
    hey dude check the hashfails . i was downloading a latest movie.and i purposefully didnt use the updater so that i could show you the amount of bandwidth wasted. take a look

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    ^^^Wasted data is differerent for different torrent
    How much was it with the ipfilter

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    Quote Originally Posted by v.Na5h View Post
    ^^^Wasted data is differerent for different torrent
    How much was it with the ipfilter
    Well when i update using ipfilter the hashfails or wasted data reduces to a very large extend.as it blacklists the Anti-p2p organization who pollutes the torrent world

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    just registered to thank you. i had 800 mb hash-fail and 400 mb ok downloads for a 7.2 gb torrent .just followed your instructions and now no hash-fails.thanks again

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    great one... thanks sangamam

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