BitComet

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BitComet
Basic data

developer Ran Ningyu
Publishing year August 6, 2003
Current  version 1.69
( July 8, 2020 )
operating system Windows , macOS
programming language C ++
category Bit torrent client
License proprietary, freeware
German speaking Yes
www.bitcomet.com

BitComet is a bit torrent client for Windows and macOS written in C ++ . BitComet is made available free of charge under a proprietary license for non-commercial use ( freeware ) and contains advertising ( adware ), which, however, since version 0.89 can be switched off by the user at will; the source texts are not open.

Functions

  • simultaneous download
  • Download queue
  • Selecting individual files within a torrent file
  • To chat
  • Port mapping
  • Proxy
  • IP address filtering
  • Support for trackerless torrents compatible with the classic client
  • Plugin for eMule support

Unfair behavior

BitComet has often attracted attention in the past due to its massively unfair behavior:
For example, versions prior to 0.61 were banned from many private trackers because these versions did not take the "private" attribute into account and distributed the files via DHT .

Version 0.81 also fell out of favor because it stated that the upload speed was too high and thus exploited so-called super seeding .

Since incidents of this kind occur all too often in the version history of BitComet, the client has now been banned by many private and anti-leech trackers.

Felix von Leitner noticed that BitComet reports fake peers without checking and can thus generate heavy loads on an HTTPS server.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.bitcomet.com . (accessed on August 7, 2020).
  2. ↑ slyck.com
  3. ↑ BitTornado bans all BitComet users
  4. ↑ http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b2b8f9f8
  5. ↑ http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b2b82dd0
  6. ↑ http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b2b8371b

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