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RE: Avoiding the fakes, a bittorrent guide.

Yeah, I'm also surprised at how many people download fakes.

A few other techniques I use:

Compare filesizes - if 90% of the torrents are 300MB, and 2 other torrents are 100MB, it should be obvious that the 100MB ones aren't correct (or heavily stripped).
If you're paranoid - increase the priority of the first few chunks. If it's a movie, you should be able to get a glimpse of what the video looks like. You can often also determine if the file extension is valid by checking the file signature (eg, if the file is .avi, but the first four bytes in the file is "RAR!" - well...)
Filenames - I typically find that "released by <name>" are generally more reliable, though this is somewhat a small factor

(This post was last modified: 04/12/2007 05:04 AM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)

04/12/2007 05:03 AM