Throttling to prevent mass-upload of fake torrents

[piddien99]

Throttling for uploads (according to popularity of previous uploads etc.), similar to the way you throttle comments, to prevent mass-upload of fake torrents.

[cakemafia]

i agree with this...

[NIK]

On the face of it, it's not a bad idea.

But it is something which would affect legitimate uploaders as well.

In any case, it has been suggested before and Winston has passed on it, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

[.::Alien::.]

VIP and Trusted uploaders should be exempted from such throttling.

[AncientRome]

I don't understand what this suggestion is.

Is it kind of like an anti-flood feature a forum or comment system might have?

[NIK]

Exactly like that.

[joew771]

bad idea. would hurt lots of legitimate uploaders.

[AtomTPB]

VIP and Trusted uploaders should be exempted from such throttling.

But this will affect some Non-Trusted uploaders as well, who are uploading good torrents.

[piddien99]

> But this will affect some Non-Trusted uploaders as well, who are uploading good torrents.

No, not if you do it properly.

[SectorVector]

Encouraged by your response, let us try to write a pseudo-code and submit it for Mr W's consideration. Yes ? :-)

I wrote this a couple of days back, just to pass time. It is simplistic, not fully done. And it proly in the TPB code already. :-)

Pl. feel free to comment/modify/rewrite it.
Thank you :-)

Code:

if (uploader IS vip or trusted or _validated_)
allow

else if (uploader has uploaded > N torrents OR has been uploader for > M months)    // validator check
{
mark uploader as _validated'
allow
}

else
check()

//-----------------
check()
{
Do the last 5-10 uploads have same file size; If yes throttle
Have the last 5-10 uploads been done in quick sucession; If yes throttle
...
else allow()
}

The idea of _validated_ flag is to avoid doing the possibly costly "validator check" above.