Bittorrent question...?

Question

ok i wanted to know the consequences of Leeching torrents without seeding, for someone who uses uTorrent and someone who gets there torrents from the pirate bay.

i am asking this becuase ive always wondered what could happen, i never leech i always seed minimum 1:1.5 (dwnload:upload) for the benefit of the swarm but i was just wondering coz my friend told me he leeches. i was like :O

so in his case, uTorrent and th pirate bay, what are his possible consequences.

thanks in advance people!!! :D always seed!

Answer 1

Consequences depend on where you got the torrent. Some sites enforce ratios, most don't. If you got the torrent from a site that enforces a minimum ratio, dropping below it will likely result in removal of your download privileges until it gets back above the minimum.

Answer 2

For me they're distinctive courses for various makes use of. I no longer often ever use Limewire or the different comparable P2P application to any extent further, in spite of the fact that for a collectively because it became all I used. Now I purely quite use Bittorrent as individuals are obliged fairly than compelled into sharing, it makes for a friendlier community. it is likewise plenty much less annoying to share and seek for great archives. and human beings can go away comments approximately torrents on the cyber web content you acquire from so which you will tell that have bugs or viruses etc. In Limewire archives may well be faked or incorporate spyware and you wont understand till you acquire. it quite is stable for the strange small record however...

Answer 3

if you connect to a torrent that is being monitored by one of the industry's watchdog organizations, you could potentially get into trouble, plain and simple. best way to defeat this is to use a private tracker rather than the public ones.