Oct 23, 2013, 06:36 am
If you access TPB via a proxy, chances are your proxy is fucking with the magnet links and rendering them unusable. eg. hidemyass makes them look like
instead of
which is what they're supposed to look like. It's not just looks either, they won't work unless they look right.
Fortunately there is a relatively easy way around that. Hopefully, someone will fix the problem of course but, until then:
1. double click on the Info Hash (it's displayed on the torrent details page now, just look for it. And double click on the value of course, not on the field label.)
2. right click and select Copy
3. Open your torrent client and select File > Add torrent from URL (if you're using uTorrent 2.x; adjust if you're using something else or do yourself a favour and switch to uTorrent 2.0.4 which is the best version of the best torrent client there is)
4. Type magnet:?xt=urn:btih: then paste the torrent hash and click OK.
Optionally, immediatly after the torrent hash and before clicking OK, you could type (or better yet, copy and paste) in &tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80
Code:
http://6.hidemyass.com/ip-1/encoded/Oi8vdGhlcGlyYXRlYmF5LnNlL3RvcnJlbnQvNzA2OTk3My9tYWduZXQ6P3h0PXVybjpidGloOjkzOGZlZGY1MjhiMWIwMWQ5ODA1ZjdlYzY0MmY3Njk5ZThmNDk2NzAmZG49NDArU2V4eStHaXJscytXYWxscGFwZXJzKzE2MDArWCsxMjAwKyU1QlNldCs2NSU1RCZ0cj11ZHAlM0ElMkYlMkZ0cmFja2VyLm9wZW5iaXR0b3JyZW50LmNvbSUzQTgwJnRyPXVkcCUzQSUyRiUyRnRyYWNrZXIucHVibGljYnQuY29tJTNBODAmdHI9dWRwJTNBJTJGJTJGdHJhY2tlci
instead of
Code:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7be37ac7f65dc78bf8b115629e60220c637fe0d1&dn=Machine+Gun+Preacher+2011+Dvdrip+xvid+Cinemagic&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80
which is what they're supposed to look like. It's not just looks either, they won't work unless they look right.
Fortunately there is a relatively easy way around that. Hopefully, someone will fix the problem of course but, until then:
1. double click on the Info Hash (it's displayed on the torrent details page now, just look for it. And double click on the value of course, not on the field label.)
2. right click and select Copy
3. Open your torrent client and select File > Add torrent from URL (if you're using uTorrent 2.x; adjust if you're using something else or do yourself a favour and switch to uTorrent 2.0.4 which is the best version of the best torrent client there is)
4. Type magnet:?xt=urn:btih: then paste the torrent hash and click OK.
Optionally, immediatly after the torrent hash and before clicking OK, you could type (or better yet, copy and paste) in &tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80