How To Quickly Investigate A Fake BitTorrent Tracker

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Sat, 02/20/2010 - 12:00

Back in 2007 we published a series of articles on various dodgy practices targeted at BitTorrent users. Many people were downloading torrents only to be told that they needed to install software like DomPlayer and 3WPlayer to get them to work.

Of course, the torrents were fake.

We also reported on BitTorrent clients such as Torrent101 , BitRoll and GetTorrent , which also caused caused a whole load of trouble for those who installed them...

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