PSA: The popular leech client Stremio got an upgrade to spoof other clients than TorrentStorm.

WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 150 points – Spoof Peer ID · Stremio/enginefs@c62b8b7
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Thanks to whoever posted this on reddit. I hope other clients detect and blocking it.

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There are more ways to detect than peer ID.

This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it's mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?

That. Is. Hilarious. I always block anyone that pops up as torrent storm since I never get any data from people on that service