Seeding The Same File With Multiple Torrents on Multiple Trackers
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I'm a member of 2 gay porn trackers, and this one has a decent amount of overlap with the other. If I want to seed the same file on both trackers, how do I do that? I want to make sure I'm not breaking any rules here.
I've only done this with 1 small torrent, and I want to make sure this is the right way to do it before I do it with more.
I downloaded the file from the other tracker. I noticed it's also on this tracker by searching the name and comparing the file size. I downloaded the .torrent file from this tracker and opened it in uTorrent so it made a new torrent. Since my torrents are set to not auto start downloading I pointed it at the file I had already downloaded, and then did a force re-check. It said it was 100% completed, so I hit start and everything appears to be running like normal. Now I have 2 torrents pointing at the same file, from 2 separate trackers.
Is this the way it's supposed to be done? If I missed anything or if it's not the right way, please let me know what to do. I looked around the forums but didn't find anything relating specifically to this.
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Yes, that is how it is supposed to be done.
The important thing is that there are two torrents listed in your client as you say "… opened it in uTorrent so it made a new torrent. ..." and "... Now I have 2 torrents pointing at the same file ...". Then each tracker will get upload/download information from the client separately.
If the client wants to add the other tracker (announce URL) to the already existing torrent, because both torrents got the same hash, don't do it. This is good for public torrents only, not for private tracker torrents. The client will mix up uploads and downloads from and to both trackers peers and therefore the ratio etc on both trackers. This might get you banned on private trackers.
If both trackers torrents got the same hash, you could run two different clients, e.g. µTorrent and qBittorrent, or two instances of µTorrent (it is described on their site how to do that) with in each one of the two torrents.