This problem is ongoing. I have had contact with staff, who say it is all sorted, everything just needs restarting I have done that multiple times. I use libtorrent, and the error message in the torrent client is [Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates]. No connection to any torrents here for 4 days...

This problem is ongoing. I have had contact with staff, who say it is all sorted, everything just needs restarting I have done that multiple times. I use libtorrent, and the error message in the torrent client is [Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates]. No connection to any torrents here for 4 days...

It is not just Feral Hosting. I am not with them, but same problem. No connection (just on this tracker) for 36 hours or so, now.

Hopefully staff are looking into a work-around.

To be told that we just need to change VPN or IP is not so realistic, seedboxes don't usually use a VPN (a lot of VPNs have trouble dealing with that amount of traffic) - in short, the IP comes with the seedbox.

Looks like the anti-DDoS thing has also blocked members who have done nothing wrong from connecting to the tracker. I have not been able to download or seed anything all day…

I wasn't searching using those words, but my searches today are just fine.

I thought I'd seen a dupe, but I can't now remember what I was searching for!

I've never seen it happen before, but it is happening to me now, too.

Some VPN providers do not like torrent traffic, and they might kick you out.

If you want to try a VPN that has good reputation, and has servers you can use for torrents, try Astrill. You can get a free trial.

@Popper:

It is possible to upload torrents for other trackers on Gay-Torrents.net, but these are rather the exception.

Indeed. But that is a privilege now accorded to a very few trusted members only. Personally, I find open/public tracker sites so insecure and dangerous, I will never download torrents using public trackers, wherever they are posted.

As a clarification, GT.net and GT.ru are both private trackers, regulated by the passkey system. GT.net differs from GT.ru in that membership at GT.net is open (in that anyone can join), whereas at GT.ru. GTN and GT.org, membership is by invitation except for periods of open registration. Nevertheless, at each of these sites, you have to be a member to access the torrents.

Open/public trackers do not use the passkey system, you do not need to be a member to access their torrents. This distinction between public/private may seem unimportant, but it is important in regulating who has access to what the members provide.

Back to the question, the trackers operate differently. What is also important is how many members each site has, how many are seeding torrents in question, and how many are leeching. One way of increasing an uploader's stats is simple - his torrent needs more leechers. Many people are members at all four sites I have mentioned, and, apart from differences in banned content lists, people often have access to the same torrent at any of the four sites. So, many people will download from the site they prefer, where there is a choice.

I think the real question at Frat X is this: would you pay $40 per month subscription, for 2 new clips a month, that you can only stream and not save to your hard disk?

You can decide if that is good value…

On Flava, I have it on good authority that they do actually watermark their clips, so they can identify precisely which of their members share their stuff to the world. Assuming, of course that their members don't use fake email addresses, VPNs, and that they do use anonymous pre-pay credit cards. How they actually embed the codes, I have no idea. But it is expensive for companies to do this.

I can finish off the mystery of this thread.

Yes, that torrent was posted at GT.net. We have since confirmed that the person who uploaded is one of the chief honchos at the company that owns Frat X. He crudely doctored his company's own video, perhaps to fake some sophisticated tracking system that does not in reality exist, and posted the clip himself with fake warnings at tube/file hosting and various (not just GT.net) torrent sites.

So, no member at Frat X has been caught out with this. This torrent was entirely fake. It seems to be a warning to their own members not to capture these clips and post them. Let's see how successful that is in reality.