How does a private torrent tracker associate the downloader with my account?

Hi, I was wondering how they do this and if there is a way to "cheat" the amount of data you are downloading or seeding.

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You have a unique "passkey" in the torrent that you download, and the tracker won't let you connect without it. I wouldn't try to cheat it, or you'll likely end up banned. Trackers have scripts to detect tampering.
- The passkey is also why you shouldn’t share torrent files.
  
  Wait, you mean the *.torrent file, right?
- Not to mention its not a huge scene. If you get black-listed, you might have a hell of a time getting back in to decent trackers if the admins share info on known blacklisters
Your tracker url in your downloaded torrent files has a unique passkey in it that allows access and associates activity with your account.
This is why you cannot share .torrent files. The contents of the .torrent files are usually fair game to make another torrent of though!
Admins despise ratio cheaters and it's a great way to get banned across multiple trackers. I recommend just getting a seedbox.
If you don't want to go to the effort to maintain a ratio, just use Usenet and never worry about seeding or leeching again.
There's no point in cheating. Any good private tracker will let maintain a sizeable buffer assuming you seed with things like bonus points/free leech.
If it's difficult to maintain a buffer, plan to move to a different tracker that will.
Plus, the big private trackers communicate with one another. Get caught in one, you'll be found out in others.
- And a lot of private trackers have some type of points system to fix your ratio if it gets out of whack. They award points for seeding.
It's possible but eventually you will get banned I remember a torrent client that let me multiply my seeding by 100 I did use it back when file list was a thing.
That said I can't ever remember seeing anything similar since.
- There is no reason that this should be possible on a private tracker. Public trackers, yes. Private ones need user authentication to let you download anything so it's trivial to track the ratio at the same time.
  
  Filelist org while it no longer exists was a private tracker and I can absolutely say the cheating ratio client completely worked.
  While I'm not proud of keeping myself ratio balanced that way (I had a very tiny upload compared to download) I can absolutely say a hacked uttorrent client kept me well above ratio at the time.
  It worked well although I kinda glad I haven't seen similar mods sinxe
Just setup a seedbox, man.....why you gotta cheat?
If you don't want to do that, switch to usenet or public trackers with a VPN. Private trackers are small and require seeders to keep torrents alive. That's why they incentivize it.

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