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Does anyone still use Peerguardian anymore?

Edit:
I think I found a better answer than the one i provided below.
PeerBlock. Looks identical to PeerGaurdian and loads without all the hassles.
»www.peerblock.com/releases/publi···0.0-r181

I found the answer.

Nobody here uses this?

Keep yourself safe when using Peer2Peer a.k.a. P2P programs such as Limewire or any of the various BitTorrent programs. When downloading and sharing files this way, computers are vulnerable to unwanted downloads, spyware, viruses and having your IP address collected and harvested. For those unfamiliar, an IP address is the numerical address assigned to each computer on the Internet. This is similar to every house having its very own address. It is important to use IP blocking software that keeps lists of dangerous locations and prevents any connections to or from them.

A highly recommended application to use is PeerGuardian 2 which maintains a large block list of IP addresses known to contain bad downloads and other intrusions. These are updated daily. PG2 allows you to select each block list which you want to use.

To add new block lists, do the following:

1.Open PeerGuardian and click the 'Disable' button.
2.Click 'List Manager'. This will open the list manager.
3.Click the 'Add' button. This will open the Add List window.
4.Under 'Description' you can leave the text field blank
5.Under 'Location' click the 'Add URL:' option and enter the address of the blocklist in the text field.
6.Under 'Type' make sure 'Block' is selected and NOT 'Allow'
7.Click 'OK'
8.Close the 'List Manager' window.

9.Click the 'Check Updates' button if the lists are not updated automatically.
10.Click the 'Enable' button to re-enable PeerGuardian after updating.
It is suggested the following lists are used. Each one needs to be added one at a time by repeating steps 3 through 7 for each one:

***IP's in the link***

»vectrosecurity.com/content/view/39/26/
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reply to djr777
If I were to go after you, I wouldn't do it from corporate offices, or from the offices of the people we'd hire to find you. Thanks to the online forums these robbers seem to think are secret, I've learned the same tricks the pirates use. Never crap where you live. Some of the webhosts the agents use are from the same providers the uploaders use. People still do use blocklists, so expect some hits from "known bad IPs". How else could they feel safe?

reply to djr777
I tend to avoid the newly released movies. I also do little things to make my downloading less noticeable: allow only 1 upload slot, limit upload bandwidth, and I do run PeerBlock.

If it's a new release, which I seldom download, I use a modded version of uTorrent (no uploading). I know leechers are a hated bunch but better to be hated than sued by the MPAA.

When a copyright protection agent opens a torrent, the host tracker sends it a list of seeders and leechers (peers), including their IP addresses. As long as a peer remains in communication with the tracker, it remains on the peerlists. Only leech mechanisms that discontinue tracker communication eventually drop users off peerlists. What bitorrent users with blocklists seldom realise, is direct connection/ transfer isn't necessary to identify both them and what they're sharing, thats what the tracker is there for.

reply to djr777
Blocklists are useless at preventing anti-piracy companies from getting your IP address when you're using torrents. They may be stopped from connecting directly to you, but they can still connect to the tracker and get a list of IP addresses that are uploading/downloading a particular torrent.

They can help prevent fakes or bogus data from being downloaded by the torrent client, but again here, most clients already have a function to ban bad IPs after a certain number of hash fails. Azureus/Vuze, for example, bans IP addresses after 3 hash fails, and if enough addresses continually send bad data, the entire /24 subnet gets blocked.
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reply to djr777
No, it was worthless and always will be.

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reply to djr777
Do anonymizers serve to block the IP addresses from being harvested?

reply to djr777
you can't *67 your ip address.

reply to prestonlewis
Just move to newsgroups so you don't have to worry about all that shit.

Or a private torrent site.

No need to pay for usenet.

Can be hard to get into those sites. Also got to keep a high ratio I download many 720P rips no way I upload all that back. It's good for a few things here and there.

reply to Alcohol
I could probably find ways to submit an email address to dozens of private trackers, especially if given eight hours daily and 40K a year to do it with. All to often users are proud to publicly display their knowledge of these "private" communities.

I'm not a fan of the site, or able to swear to it's accuracy, but heres food for thought: »torrentfreak.com/piracy-investig···t-sites/

“Many groups didn’t start off as private. They became private because they felt threatened, so we were able to get in when they were open” “Once you’re in, you never take action. You just listen”

Scare talk, no doubt, but easily done if they wanted to really do it.

reply to djr777
Blocklists can be circumvented so easily. Just as easily as I can go sign up with any ISP out there, so can the RIAA/MPAA. Once i'm signed up, I can go and pull the list of peers on a torrent, log the data they shared with me, and fire off a cease letter to scare them. Just as easily as I can do it, so can the RIAA/MPAA.

How is PG going to defend against that? Are they going to block every single residential IP? They would have to, wouldn't they?
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reply to djr777
I don't understand why people still use bittorrent if they are so paranoid. None of this blocking crap works. I have not used bit torrent since 2004, since the edonkey days lol. Grow up and try usenet or irc.