BitComet

BitComet is a BitTorrent client for Windows, written in C . BitComet is under a proprietary license for non- commercial use provided free of charge ( freeware) and contains advertisements ( adware ), but this can be turned off at will by the user since version 0.89; the sources are not open.

Functions

• Simultaneous Download
• Download Queue
• Select individual files within a torrent file
• Chat
• Port mapping
• Proxy
• IP address filtering
• Support for trackerless torrents that are compatible with the classic client
• EMule plugin for support

Unfair behavior

BitComet is noticed in the past on numerous occasions by massively unfair behavior: Thus, for example versions were glued to 0.61 by many private trackers, as these versions, the "private" attribute is not taken into account and distributed the files via DHT.

The version 0.81 fell into disfavor because they stated too high upload speed and thus exploiting the so-called Superseeding.

Since incidents of this nature occur all too often in the history of BitComet, the client of many private and Anti-leech trackers has now been banished.

Felix von Leitner noticed that BitComet reports it unchecked fake peers and thus can generate heavy load on an HTTPS server.