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
March 18th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
moviex are leeching assholes, all they do is leech off from public and whine about leechers not giving back. its a free world, just because we don`t wont to join your shitty site doesnt mean we don`t seed. All you are trying to do is force peaple to join you or make money off people who don`t using the so called vip system to leech off the public. you people make me sick :@
March 20th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
just deleted moviex.info tracker and my seeding have droped by 60% . what can u say about it ? and i still don’t have any plans of registering on theyr website.
March 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
“by far we seed more than download.”
so who the hell do you upload to???? how can you leech from the BT community and still say you seed more than you leech????
I want my data going to the regular BT community not you s.lut.s
I hope somebody DDoS you f.uck.er.s into the stoneage…
March 24th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Would be nice with ratios on all sites.
I try to be fair but i must admit i have made a few hit and runs, especially on piratebay, because theres no sanctions.
All in all i have a ratio of 0.768 (142GB/185GB), but i have 1.1 on moviex.
I like movieX, but are in no position to judge if there methods are wrong, but i don’t see the problem when you can just sign up.
The biggest problem i think is also that the majority of leecheres have an DSL connection that allways have a higher download than upload.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
use this instead of the one given
h**p://www.moviex.info:2710/i74dpi265mpjyo522hduwxfa9xucvt6u/announce
just copy and paste into properties of torrent, remember to change the **”s to tt’s and that should get you going
April 30th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I suggest everyone who downloads a torrent from piratebay or other non-private torrent site to check the trackers before starting the download: if there is moviex-tracker just simply remove it.
There is no reason to share for moviex-useres if they don’t share to non-moviex-users. It’s that simple.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I upload at a global rate of 3kbs/sec and download at 620 kbs/sec. my ratio is perfect just the way it is. thx for seeding. i will never stop the hit and run. when you pay for my bandwidth i might reconsider
May 5th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
So - if you use MovieX’s tracker for non-registered users then you are allowed to seed (to MovieX users) but not download anything. Even if MovieX’s intent with the planted torrents is to advertise and not to leech - the side effect is that they are leeching.
By planting their generic tracker within other torrents, they are causing people to (unknowingly) give up their bandwidth in such a way that only benefits MovieX members. This is not fair or neutral.
If MovieX want to advertise then have their generic tracker allow downloads, OR prevent upload. Any other way is unethical. As such I now check my tracker lists for MovieX ones and remove them where I see them. Will install moblock sometime later when I have spare time …
May 19th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
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November 29th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
this report is just simply unfounded. obviously written by someone with no first hand experience with moviex whatsoever. why dont you get a real clue and visit our site. you’ll see the huge amounts of data our own member do upload within our community. by far we seed more than download. our methods keep our site leecher free.”
Although you are correct in the fact that this method ensures that there are no leachers; You are missing the point altogether: Moviex is becoming one large leacher, leaching off of a public community and giving nothing in return. I may just ask the same question, “why dont you get a real clue”. You are advertising moviex as some ‘above standard’ site that provides great speeds for their users due to a required upload to download ratio, however, at the same time the whole community is becoming what they so, gracefully, discriminate against.
They are taking but not giving. They are blocking EVERY sort of download from their tracker and accepting ALL uploads. Again, they are taking but not giving.
Much of the public community are not concerned about how moviex works, nor do they care about complexity of trackers. They are concerned that a leach, and a large one at that, is slowly sucking away bandwidth that was intended for people who give BACK to the community.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Fuck moviex and fuck piratebay for letting this go on.