Re: Got Caught File Sharing on Utorrent
Sadly, an IP filter is no guarantee against getting hit with a copyright notice. I've seen a lot of complaints from people over the years saying that they got caught despite using an IP blocker.
It's a great tool for blocking those malicious fake-data spewers that corrupt torrent downloads and waste a person's time and bandwidth, but I think that their usefulness as a "anonymization" tool on public torrents is only marginal at best. The anti-P2P enforcers have known about IP blocklists for years and taken steps to bypass them by constantly getting new address blocks to operate under -- even leasing servers in the same data centers used by major seedbox providers.
Re: Got Caught File Sharing on Utorrent
That's correct, zot. No IP filter is flawless, nor does using one make you invulnerable. However, as you also stated, using one is definitely better than going naked while torrenting, specially on public trackers.
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zot
It's a great tool for blocking those malicious fake-data spewers that corrupt torrent downloads and waste a person's time and bandwidth
That's pretty much what I use it for, even though in my country infringement letters and ISP notices aren't a problem (for now).
Re: Got Caught File Sharing on Utorrent
so if on win7 its not?
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anon-sbi
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Hiccup
Use peerblock
Built-in ipfilter.dat support or P2PFire (if on XP or below) > PeerBlock.
Re: Got Caught File Sharing on Utorrent
That's only for P2PFire, which doesn't work on systems newer than XP.
uTorrent's built-in filter will work on any system it can run on.
Re: Got Caught File Sharing on Utorrent
i dont get it why does peerblock have 776,265,749 ip's blocked and ipfilter only 7012
http://postimage.org/image/10hkiwxfo/
Do i have the wrong ipfilter?
Re: Got Caught File Sharing on Utorrent
that number - 776,265,749 - covers roughly about a fourth of all IP v.4 addresses available.
I would guess that 7012 represents the number of IP ranges (rather than individual addresses) that are blocked.
Re: Got Caught File Sharing on Utorrent
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Frankthetank1
Notepad shows the total amount of IPs blocked. uTorrent shows the amount of entries in the ipfilter.dat file, which isn't the same. A single entry could block the whole Internet.