Recently Pirate Bay Torrent revealed that pirate bay mining virtual currency using user’s CPU power to gain some profit. If you are also using Pirate Bay then read full article properly. Torrent is world leader in piracy where you can get anything you need. Softwares, movies, porn and even games all are available at free of cost. However, Torrent up-loaders also need money to continue uploading files in torrent. So, pirate bay up-loaders created such a secret algorithm that will use your cpu usage and power to mine virtual currency . By mining they can get huge profits to survive.
How to Detect Pirate Bay mining using your CPU Power ?
It is very simple to detect pirate bay mining. Whenever you download any torrent file using magnet link or .torrent file then keep checking your Uploading and Download Speed. If your uploading speed is getting higher and higher then pirate bay is using your CPU usage and data. Even you can keep track of CPU Meter using task manager or widgets available in Windows 7,8 and 10. Whenever you download any torrent file it will take more CPU usage as compared to normal downloads. However, this algorithm of mining is not dangerous and it is just a way for torrent up-loaders to survive. But it is a problem for all user’s who download torrent files and pay a lot for internet plans.
If you are downloading a movie that have a size 1 GB then pirate bay after mining make it 1.4 GB.
How to prevent Pirate Bay for stop using your CPU usage ?
You do not need to prevent pirate bay for using your CPU and data if you have unlimited plans. For preventing pirate bay, use utorrent or any other torrent that has a option to set upload limit for downloads.
If you are using utorrent then see below
Set limit to 100 kB/s that is enough for sending data. You can divide your download speed by 10 and value you will get will be your upload speed limit.
After complete download, stop torrent file for seeding by right click on file and click stop. Once stop cut and paste file in other directory. Remove all extra .txt files and others that comes with your download file.
That’s it, If you have any questions and suggestions for me please comment down below.
