torrentfreak.com — Recent findings by researchers from the University of California, Riverside, show that 15% of the IPs people connect to on the Gnutella P2P network are blocked by blocklist applications such as PeerGuardian. Statistics like this do not prove anything about the effectiveness of these lists, however, according to an insider...
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noonebutmeApr 16, 2007
Er.. 2 things that jumped to me off the top of my head:1. Peerguardian uses the Bluetack lists. So the 'survey' is automatically skewed towards that - 60 days for one list, 30 for the other.2. With Peer Exchange, you dont even need to connect to the person in bittorrent to get their IP. There's more reasons then this that make Peerguardian/other things useless, but A. i dont feel like typing them out and B. If the post gets to long, it'll be ignored (after all, how many actually read those long-ass posts? xD) which is bad.
beckeristApr 16, 2007
Except you can't get in trouble for downloading, only uploading (at least in the US.) Your *ahem* "friend" should turn around and sue NBC. Considering there's probably no letter, and more likely no friend I'd just as well leave it alone.
john570Apr 16, 2007
Why did i get dug down for asking a question. Whatever. Thanks for the replies. I will give it a try.
talusApr 16, 2007
Word is, that it doesn't work anymore... It hasn't been updated since 2004?
jugalatorApr 16, 2007
Something I've always wondered is how do the blocklist maintainers know where RIAA or the cops connect from?I mean, do they really announce that sort of thing? Or are *god forbid* the blocklist so stupid as to simply check the netblock of the RIAA website or something and assume they always connect from there? :-oI'm just wondering how the accuracy is maintained. Couldn't they just connect from a random public network?
sulfApr 16, 2007
I would rather block 90% of innocent people than let a single RIAA computer get my IP. Maybe I'm too paranoid, though...
frothyaApr 16, 2007
I use PeerGuardian2 for at times I noticed UDP blocks going to some shady ip ranges or when I have a sense that a link may lead to a no good site but I click on it anyway just to see what comes up (with the http block on).Nothing is 100% effective but it is overall, another layer of protection. Better to have some anti-packet sniffing then none at all.
ng007Jul 23, 2009
If it's free, I wonder if you'd get a warning letter for downloading something else that's free. Like a Jamendo torrent, or a Linux image.