Moviex.info - Leeching From The Bittorrent Community
Posted on 28 November 2007 by Stuart
Moviex.info is a private members only bittorrent community and tracker that has been setup and configured to leech file sources from public bittorrent users, their tracker configuration allows only seeding for external users with downloading being blocked for non members of moviex.info.
The large amount of private bittorrent tracker web sites are exactly that, private and for registered members only. When a member signs up to a private bittorrent tracker community they are normally provided with a uniqe ID often called a PassKey. This uniqe passkey then allows users to download torrents from the the site and gives the sites tracker a mean’s to monitor that individuals download and upload ratios/amount.
A user that downloads a torrent from a private tracker and that is not a member of that tracker will usually get a tracker connection failure in their bittorrent client. They will not be able to download or upload any data from that torrent, more often than not rendering the torrent useless to them.
This is the basis that most private bittorrent sites work upon, most that is apart from www.moviex.info.
Over that past few months bittorrent users have noticed a sudden rise in torrent files being uploaded to public indexing sites like newtorrents.info, mininova.org, and thepiratebay.org that contains a tracker url belonging to moviex.info, newtorrents.info is indicated as being the most polutted site containing these torrent file uploads.
The two tracker urls that are present in these uploaded torrents are the pirate bay along with the moviex.info url that always has the same passkey present, presumably the passkey for an anonymous user.
http://www.moviex.info:2710/r12xjr0azivx42cjuyzn3c73mdqxj31q/announce
http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
To see a pirate bay tracker URL present in a torrent file is nothing out of the ordinary so what’s special about the Moviex.info URL being present in public torrents we may hear you ask, well the message you get when trying to connect to the moviex.info tracker if you are not a member below should just about say it all.
You can clearly see from the tracker message that moviex.info allows non members of their site who have downloaded the torrent file to seed parts but never actually download any from their members, this is a huge bonus for moviex.info tracker and it’s members. Currently NewTorrents.info provides 1000’s of downloads per day to torrent users and reportedly 50% of the available torrents on that site have the moviex.info tracker URL present, the percentage may be higher.
These deliberatley and consistently uploaded torrent files allow members of Moviex.info to leech data from the external users that have downloaded the torrent file from newtorrents.info, the bonus for moviex.info members is that they never have to and cannot upload a kb of that torrent to the non moviex member.
It’s a pretty nice system if you want your private tracker to gain external seeds along with faster download speeds for your members, It’s however also a very damaging method for any user who is not a member of MovieX.info as they will continually upload pieces of the torrent to users who will give nothing back.
How can you stop uploading to the leech tracker of moviex.info, well if you download a torrent file from a public tracker check the tracker URL’s and remove the one below if it is present. This will stop you seeding the file on that tracker and in turn not allow members of moviex.info to leech data from you.
http://www.moviex.info:2710/r12xjr0azivx42cjuyzn3c73mdqxj31q/announce
You could also try blocking the moviex tracker by the IP Address below in your IP filter if your not a member.
206.53.62.206
Moviex have taken the time to code this feature into their tracker and at the moment as far as P2PViNE can tell are the only private site exploiting this type of dirty hack to leech from external bittorrent users.
What moviex.info should do is not allow external users with no passkey to connect to their tracker in any way, instead they deliberatley setup to leech as much from the bittorrent community as possible.
UPDATE: PeerGuardian 2 now blocks moviex.info from connectig to your torrent client, you can download the PeerGuardian 2 installer from HERE.
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Tags | Bittorrent, leech, leeching, Moviex.info, p2p abuse, p2p spam, private tracker
December 6th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Whoever is uploading these torrent files in the first place should stop providing their service to crappy sites like newtorrents.info. Imagine how much more crappier their site would be if they were getting “50%” less new torrents. For fuck sake they’re providing a service and no-ones forcing anyone to continue seeding once they’ve finished downloading. Grow a fucking brain guys.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Easiest way to disable moviex.info (in vista) is to block your bittorrent client from accessing it using firewall settings.
To do this you need to be admin. Go to the admin tools menu and choose “windows firewall with advanced settings”.
In the outbound rules, right click and select new rule. Then follow the prompts:
- enter the program (e.g. utorrent) path
- choose block the connection
- choose private and public
- give it a name
Then go to the scope tab and change the remote ip address and add “206.53.62.64″ to it.
Utorrent (or the client you use) now reports it as “attempt made to access… forbidden by access permissions”.
That’s it. Goodbye moviex.info. Repeat for all other bandwidth farmers.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:15 am
I hadde no clue what Moviex.info was or was doing before i installed PeerGuardian 2. If it is advertising or Abuse i do not know. Any way i do not want any thing to do whit it. To moviex, Consider your self blocked. If you do not Leech or abuse this will not matter to you… will it.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Thanks for your well documented “report”.
I was experiencing alot of this “leeching forbidden, you are only allowed to seed” stuff from MovieX. I don’t get why some people are putting these phony torrents on honest sites like thepiratebay, it’s about 50% of the torrents there now. I don’t care if insiders only download from insiders, your wasting our bandwidth, and this way of “advertising” has only gotten you guys in the PeerGuardian filter, good job.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:02 am
“Please do not mistake the intent of these ‘planted’ torrents…they are more a method of discovery than a method of parasitism…”
UncertainIntent you fucking cock sucker!!!
Everyone can discover you fucking site if you use a torrent that doesn’t allow any connections from non members! You just don’t allow non member DOWNLOADERS to connect, when someone starts seeding the story changes!
You fuck heads are leeching from the public, and you’re worst then leechers, because as bad as they are, at least they don’t pretend to be the good guys. They just want to watch some movies without breaking the bank, they don’t want to make money from VIP accounts that feed of the public’s bandwidth.
Someone will DDOS you fucking asses to the ground, rest assured!
January 20th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Maybe someone can explain my experience with moviex.info.
First when I downloaded their torrents (unawares) from public sites (mostly mininova) I got the error message mentioned in the article (seeding allowed but no leeching).
the first thing I did was to go to their website to join (my-bad according to some above). Anyway, I was given an error message saying my IP was already a member. However I have a dynamic ip, and have never joined.
After several failed attempts and an unrepsonsive email to the site administrator I thought I would try other ways.
So I next went to pirate bay and became a registered member there (noting that one of the tracker addresses was from there).
After this, the torrent started working! However each torrent stopped at a certain percentage. One stopped at 60%, another at %25.
After a few days of nothing I tried going to isohunt. There I found different tracker addresses for these torrents. By adding these to the tracker list for each torrent (using azureus) the download then commenced.
I have had some interesting issues with this. I have found that I have had to delete the moviex.info tracker to make it work. Also in certain instances I have had to try one tracker at a time.
Anyway it has worked in each case so far, although has been slow.
My ratio is well over 1, and I always seed more than I leech. I gave over double back the first one I had success with in the hope that moviex.info would somehow pick it up and lose the ban on my ip.
Anyway all to no avail. Still no email response, still banned, and after reading this article will try to avoid their torrents all together in future.
January 20th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I strongly disagree with your Position on Moviex. If it weren’t for all the ‘leechy jerks’ there would be no need for a place like Moviex in the first place. I can’t tell you all the times I seed to multiple ‘leechy jerks’ who never return the favor after their torrent completes so I can stop seeding with out cutting everyone off. Over and over people just cut and run after completing their torrent. Moviex has a refreshing policy of requiring a 1.1 to 1 ratio and they will automatically ban you for anything less than 70%. I wish it was 110% to make up for the 10% who actually pay to keep the site going (MovieX has no adds and annoying Pop-ups) and therefore don’t have a mandatory ratio. I joined Moviex today After being impressed buy the rules. Realized Moviex was blocked and researched the issue. Moviex posted some very compelling rebuttals Like all the Torrents with the Double trackers do allow non-members to leech (The tracker belonging to MovieX allow non-members to leech but only up to a certain point at witch time they can still seed to moviex. After all they did leech from Moviex. Only fair! And they can continue to leech off the other tracker. If the other tracker is now dead due to all the ‘leechy jerks’ on public trackers Moviex should not be to blame. But it is exactly why more decent P2P’ers will join communities like Moviex and all the ‘leechy jerks’ are complaining. If all P2P’ers were considerate there would be no complaints, Probably no MovieX and plenty of live torrents for everyone.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
uncertain intent is in fact the owner of moviex. if you want to hassle him……….ajswann@gmail.com
March 4th, 2008 at 3:42 am
MovieX sucks, but who cares? I use PeerGuardian so it’s blocked. BTW, my ratio is >1:1. I just hate having to sign up.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:57 am
oh yeah my ratio is 10:1, I edited the text file myself