If You Find A Fake.
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: ANGELUS
For those of you who find a FAKE.
Please do us all a favor. Either DELETE it or Rename it to the Correct Name. Also post it in the Fake Section.
It would help us all.
:D :D
Posted by: bestoutof2
wel i know that thay keep it cause that whont there participation level to grow or thay whont you to download the fake just like thay did
Posted by: tracydani
Belive it or not, some people think it is a good way to not get caught with a particular file too.
Just think of the kids who use kazaa and the porn they want to hide from their family :lol:
Posted by: Benno
I think you should keep the file a while just rename it and message every user uploading it from you.
that way you can prevent others from downloading it as well.
Posted by: UKMan
Originally posted by Benno@3 February 2003 - 17:54
I think you should keep the file a while just rename it and message every user uploading it from you.
that way you can prevent others from downloading it as well.
Well said Benno - constructive, but wont that be difficult keeping your eyes peeled all the time on your screen to see whos DL'ing :P
@ANGELUS - yes - post it in the fakes section so everyone can see.
Posted by: Champion
If i found fake file i do three thing:
1. Delte the file
or
2. Change the file name (if i know which one is it.)
or
3. Stop/don't share fakes files. (if i like the file and want to see that)
:D :)
Posted by: jubei_yagyu
when i download a fake i keep it but change the descrition of it so they will know that others that size will be fake
Posted by: Shinigami_[R.I.P.]
I do a mix of what Champion and Jubei Yagyu said B)
Posted by: SuperJude™
SuperJude™ hits the delete button. I won't waste my time on fakes, and the verifieds I keep on my PC usually get out there, so I don't think I need to really keep fakes, though I haven't gotten a fake in quite some time now.
-SJ™
Posted by: sim one
I haven't had a fake for a while now. I always use the verifieds section before downloading
Posted by: Yako
Ah, where is the fake section ??
;)
Posted by: cgfreak
why do ppl post fakes, thats just stupid, i mean you spend at least a good hour downloading a movie (i have DSL 1.0Mbps) and it wont let you preview, then when you are done is not the movie or sometimes the screen is just black and yes i have all the codecs you can think of, sometimes you are able to tell by the file name that thats not the file that you want but in some other cases you can't see anything. :blink:
Posted by: thomig
We have a solution to select fakes out.
It's a small proggie by FTFakes. You find it @ FasttrackHelp (http://www.fasttrackhelp.com/downloadcenter.php).
But we haven't time enough in the last days to write an english manual. Sorry :)
Please help us testing that new prog: FTFakes
For Questions post in that forum or in our forum.
We are with you :)
Posted by: Jibbler
Personally, I'm on a fast connection, so when I download a fake, I just delete it. You certainly could rename the file, but then multiple copies of the same file get circulated with different names. Renaming files is a huge problem, but its been happening for years. We are all here getting "free" files. I really don't think this happens often enough to be a problem.--
Jibbler
Posted by: UKMan
Originally posted by Yako@4 February 2003 - 22:35
Ah, where is the fake section ??
;)
Now the "Verifieds" has gone from this board, so have the "Fakes" section as well - sorry Bro :(
Posted by: Skidmark1
Delete the freaking things! I only download songs that have multiple copies out there.
Posted by: thomig
We have the possibility to register all fakes.
It's very interesting :P You find the sources of fakes :P
The only you have to do, is collect the filehash in the fakelist and share this list in KaZaa.
The FTFakes project is momentary paused (cause of KaZuperNodes), in the next time we go on.
Posted by: thomig
Oh sorry :D
I forgot the link
FTFakes (http://www.fasttrackhelp.com/downloadcenter.php)
Posted by: Negrin
Originally posted by Skidmark1@9 February 2003 - 00:08
I only download songs that have multiple copies out there.
That isn't always enough to tell it's not a fake. Many users just leave these things with no changes done to their filenames, descriptions etc., and just keep sharing them. Myself, I don't usually come across fakes, since I mostly use verifieds, but if I do, I either change the name and description if the thing is worth keeping on my hdd at all (can't rember now what it was, but once I was actually quite happy to have dl'ed something this way :)), or get rid of it if it's crap.
Posted by: fridaynightispartynight
If people are just renaming files, then if I am sharing the same file before they renamed it, would my movie be added to there sources to download from under the new file name. The same movie from the same list of sources can have different file names, different metadata, and even filesize varying by a byte or two.
Therefore maybe not every one is keeping fakes but verifieds before they where fakes
Posted by: Shucky
What exactly does FTFakes do? It would help if you described WHAT a program does before you suggest people download it!
;)
Posted by: thomig
Sorry, we have momentary a lot to do.
Just a short introduction.
This program is only in German at this time.
And we have a short and still incomprehensible manual.
Thats all.
What this program does?
You find a fake, add the filehash of a fake to the fakelist.
FTFakes avoids the download of a file thats registered as fake.
Yeah, and of course you set this fakelist in your share.
Friends changing fakelist and protect eachother to download fakes. :D
Sorry again that the english version and manual is still unfinished.
Wait or try to find out. :P
It works!
I agree that it is better to register the originals. Maybe we need both.
Posted by: alextheseal
Or you can report it to us and we will block it. Included in the program is a fakes reporting system.
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PeerBuddy is a mini firewall for P2P (Kazaa, EMule, etc). The program filters out the IP addresses of people who share blank, or faked files and it prevents you from wasting your time downloading those bad files. This will help with your downloads since a number of organizations and individuals are sharing bad and blank files out there. It is also going to be blocking known email miners, stalkers, spammers and surveillance companies.