Is this a valid act in BT ?

[Hypatia]

To cross seed successfully without "cheating" you should first remove the torrent from your client

eh? what happened to running upload of the same downloaded files to different trackers from two utorrent instances? Thus -no cheating.

[anon]

eh? what happened to running upload of the same downloaded files to different trackers from two utorrent instances? Thus -no cheating.

True, but if the info_hash isn't the same you can save yourself the hassle of running two uTorrents.

[InTheBasement]

Most likely the hash won't be the same because of the passkey.

[anon]

Most likely the hash won't be the same because of the passkey.

That part of the .torrent file isn't taken into account when calculating the hash. You can check it out yourself - take one you already have running in your client, edit the announce URL with BEncode Editor, save it and try to load it. You'll still be told it's already there.

[InTheBasement]

I think you're right. I haven't cross seeded in a very long time. When I did I was using kTorrent and never had any torrent merging issues until I tried uTorrent in a wine environment. That was the first time I saw what you said about, "load the trackers from it". So I just renamed the torrent file at the end with something relevant, like 'IPT' or 'SCC'

[kukushka]

To cross seed successfully without "cheating" you should first remove the torrent from your client

eh? what happened to running upload of the same downloaded files to different trackers from two utorrent instances? Thus -no cheating.

at pedros you can seed only the stuff that you dl'ded from there

[CQ1ST]

in the case of torrentleech, they tell you to do it and how it's done - it's a good way to 'save your ratio'. but it would lose all validity if you use it for some power-struggling habit I think, because a healthy ratio should be just natural (after the initial kid-in-a-candy-store-syndrome experience of joining some trackers that is)

[anon]

it's a good way to 'save your ratio'. but it would lose all validity if you use it for some power-struggling habit I think, because a healthy ratio should be just natural

If too many people cross-seed, it becomes harder for those who don't to keep a good ratio - the cross-seeders can "steal files" from a tracker they have good stats on, then get all the extra upload on the other site for free.

If everyone cross-seeded, there'd be no point on running a tracker.

[CQ1ST]

so true

[mjmacky]

If everyone cross-seeded, there'd be no point on running a tracker.

Aren't a lot of these scene trackers just duplicates of each other anyway?