Eeeenteresting. I just did an elaborate experiment where I screenshot my on-site stats, cleared my totals and seeding torrents in uTorrent, grabbed five freeleech torrents, then let it run for a while. The on-site stats correctly credited the uploads and did not increment the downloads -- in other words, everything performed exactly as it should have.

So either things magically fixed themselves recently, or (much more likely) I paid insufficient attention to the stats earlier when I concluded that freeleech wasn't working.

If you could post screenies, that would be great.

If you want, I can take screenshots of the phenomenon.

As an example; when I make a torrent freeleech for 24 hours, it is free to download without changing your download rate for exactly 24 hours from the time I set it as such. It doesn't matter when you download the torrent file. If you are still downloading the video when freeleech ends, you only get charged for the data after that.

Uploading data, freeleech or not, always counts toward your ratio.

FWIW, I never bother with freeleech because 100 percent of the time, my traffic/ratio acts as if the torrent weren't freeleech.

I haven't tracked this as closely as you have, perhaps because with my new internet provider my ratio is now comfortable. But if what you say is indeed true (and I have no reason to doubt you), it would be a disappointment to many members.