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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: RRM on May 19, 2010, 12:38:57 PM

Title: Loophole in the system?
Post by: RRM on May 19, 2010, 12:38:57 PM
Currently somebody is downloading from me from 3 different countries simultaneously,
but all from the same account!
How do i know its the same account?
Because he currently has downloaded 43.531 GB and that number now is, and has always been identical
for all 3 his 'clients' (He is downloading from Switzerland, France and Italy simultaneously)
Thus he is downloading 3 different files simultaneously from me.
Anybody knows something about this?

The user hash of those 3 different 'clients' is identical,
and he always uses the 3.0A version of New MLDonkey,
but the user ID and the IP address are always different.
Title: Re: Loophole in the system?
Post by: jazzmaniac on May 19, 2010, 01:33:12 PM
RRM, I regret that I don't have any answer for you. I too encountered  someone utilizing the same "loophole". Said "client" was apparently using multiple "accounts" to download files from me simultaneously. This downloader operated under only one flag (I'm not going to say which). I was really taken aback when I made this "discovery". This "cheating" defeats the whole purpose of SHARING apps like aMule. I guess I'm just living in dreamland...
Title: Re: Loophole in the system?
Post by: RRM on May 19, 2010, 01:50:33 PM
There must be a way to counteract this.
Maybe by checking the user hash of each client?
(by aMule, of course)
Title: Re: Loophole in the system?
Post by: Stu Redman on May 19, 2010, 08:44:23 PM
This "cheating" defeats the whole purpose of SHARING apps like aMule.
How so? Credit balance is shared between the 3 clients with the same id probably.
Title: Re: Loophole in the system?
Post by: GonoszTopi on May 19, 2010, 09:18:16 PM
The user hash of those 3 different 'clients' is identical,
Then it's no surprise that the downloaded amount is always the same: it's accounted by userhash.

and he always uses the 3.0A version of New MLDonkey,
That may be either a bug in MLDonkey or a faked userhash. Or I don't know.
Title: Re: Loophole in the system?
Post by: Stu Redman on May 19, 2010, 09:46:05 PM
Or someone posting a set of "good config files" and several people using them. That's my guess.  :)
Title: Re: Loophole in the system?
Post by: Kry on May 19, 2010, 10:28:39 PM
I've heard of live distros shipping with mldonkey config files... ;)
Title: Re: Loophole in the system?
Post by: RRM on May 20, 2010, 07:16:04 PM
Or someone posting a set of "good config files" and several people using them. That's my guess.  :)

I guess you are right,
as this morning only the Italian was downloading,
and the Swiss and French only resumed downloading in the early evening.