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New Azureus has a feature known as decentralized tracking, which allows the client to function in the event the tracker dies. While this could be considered a good thing if you are hosting pirated Windows XP ISO on your DSL tracker, decentralized tracking enabled by default on healthy torrents with stable trackers only interferes with the tracker's ability to collect accurate statistics, as well as affects non-azureus running peers by not allowing the tracker to properly distribute pieces. All new torrents posted on this website (starting from May 5th 2005) will have a flag embedded to prevent decentralized tracking. Any attempts to circumvent this feature will result in your entire netblock being immediately BANNED. In order not to get banned, it is recommended that you turn decentralized tracking off, by following this simple procedure:

1. In Azureus, go to Tools
2. Select Options
3. Under "Connection" scroll down until you get to the "Peer Sources" section
4. Uncheck the box labeled "Decentralized tracking".
5. Close out of the Options.

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