Just Got This Message On Kazaa

[RealitY]

Most likely a hacker if its in China. Though considering your history here and views, my guess is your not sharing high profile material, thus no hits. At times I may get quite a few.

[Fatal Error]

Originally posted by OlderThanDirt@21 May 2003 - 02:16
The odd thing for me is that I've never encountered hits from IPs considered "unfriendly."  There is only one IP that consistently hits on me (and gets blocked) -- 168.160.250.191 -- which Arin.net says is in China.

Indeed..it is odd, I just ran a whois on that IP out of sheer curiosity to see what I could find.

Net Range: 168.160.0.0 - 168.160.255.255
Tech Handle: YL-16-Arin
Location: Beijing, China

No reverse DNS has been configured for this IP.
TraceRoute terminates to an unknown IP address.
The provided technical contact information does not exist.
The registration info for this network has been reported to be invalid.

LOL.. you have a real mystery here OTD.

[OlderThanDirt]

REALITY wrote:

Though considering your history here and views, my guess is your not sharing high profile material, thus no hits.

Exactly. It would be interesting if someone close to the industry could actually come out and say what IS high profile material ... a "target-artist" list or a "target-timeframe" list. Still, that Chinese IP is persistent. Maybe I inadvertently pissed off a Chinese hacker but can't figure out how I did it, hehe.

[Fatal Error]

Originally posted by OlderThanDirt@22 May 2003 - 04:19

REALITY wrote:

Though considering your history here and views, my guess is your not sharing high profile material, thus no hits.

Exactly. It would be interesting if someone close to the industry could actually come out and say what IS high profile material ... a "target-artist" list or a "target-timeframe" list. Still, that Chinese IP is persistent. Maybe I inadvertently pissed off a Chinese hacker but can't figure out how I did it, hehe.

Ok.. I'm gonna put this out there for your consideration..

It has been my experience, and observation, over the past two weeks that I have been blocking connection attempts on PeerGuardian even while I am NOT on a P2P program.. so therefore, it would appear that the likes of RIAA , et al are attempting to scan computers even when they are NOT actively engaged in uploading or downloading "copyrighted material"..

I have some very serious reservations regarding the legality of this practice.

I read your posts with interest.. I enjoy them, and would venture to say that I have read them all, and in no instance have I observed a remark or comment that would make you a "target" of anyone. As I had stated in a above post the "technical contact" information for this network is bogus.. or I would of suggested that you contact the network administrator by e-mail and simply asked "Whats up?"

It's also been my experience that almost all "warning letters" are generated as a result of a user allowing uploads of movie or game files.. these would appear to be the targets..not so much .mp3 Just out of curiosity, I'm going to add that IP to my blocklist, and I'll advise you of any activity.. This may, or may not be exclusive to you, we shall see.

[RealitY]

Originally posted by OlderThanDirt@22 May 2003 - 09:19
Exactly. It would be interesting if someone close to the industry could actually come out and say what IS high profile material ... a "target-artist" list or a "target-timeframe" list.

As stated, high profile at the moment would be items such as Matrix. Generally current movie titles under a month old. At least this is what my cable company explained to me.

[RealitY]

Originally posted by Fatal Error@22 May 2003 - 15:39
It has been my experience, and observation, over the past two weeks that I have been blocking connection attempts on PeerGuardian even while I am NOT on a P2P program.. so therefore, it would appear that the likes of RIAA , et al are attempting to scan computers even when they are NOT actively engaged in uploading or downloading "copyrighted material"..

I have some very serious reservations regarding the legality of this practice.

I find this VERY DISTURBING if true. I Leave my PG visible most of the time and have watched when it is active. First, whenever I have high profile names in my shared folder, even if it is not the item itself but only a a trailer, you know who pops up. Second, whenever I start to download a fake with few sources, AVIFAKES pops up. If what you say is true, which IP's, and are they known ones? If so, I would report this activity immediatly. I might also add, I change my IP regularly these days.

[Fatal Error]

Originally posted by REALITY+22 May 2003 - 13:44--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (REALITY @ 22 May 2003 - 13:44)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--Fatal Error@22 May 2003 - 15:39
It has been my experience, and observation, over the past two weeks that I have been blocking connection attempts on PeerGuardian even while I am NOT on a P2P program.. so therefore, it would appear that the likes of RIAA , et al are attempting to scan computers even when they are NOT actively engaged in uploading or downloading "copyrighted material"..&nbsp;

I have some very serious reservations regarding the legality of this practice.

I find this VERY DISTURBING if true. I Leave my PG visible most of the time and have watched when it is active. First, whenever I have high profile names in my shared folder, even if it is not the item itself but only a a trailer, you know who pops up. Second, whenever I start to download a fake with few sources, AVIFAKES pops up. If what you say is true, which IP&#39;s, and are they known ones? If so, I would report this activity immediatly. I might also add, I change my IP regularly these days.[/b][/quote]
Your not the only one that finds this very disturbing.. So far, Sony Music Entertainment Inc. is the biggest offender (123 attempts in 6hrs.) at least thats the way its listed on PG..

I did some homework and discovered that the IP range in question is actually registered to a company in NC, called Cable & Wireless so accordingly, I will be adding the entire IP range to the PG Database.

I&#39;m not that concerned because ALL of the IP&#39;s I picked up are known and were sucessfully blocked by PG.. what bothers me is the fact that I&#39;m being scanned while I&#39;m inactive.. I will be letting my attorney handle the complaint.

I have come to the conclusion that the Industry is using software designed to detect fragments of specific files which they are looking for.. in my opinion, this is very dangerous because even a fake or misnamed file could theoretically be detected without authentication of the files validity or actual content.. this is bad enough when your active.. but in my opinion, what they are trying to do in my case, is hack my computer.

As for changing my IP.. this would not be easy as I have a cable connection with a static IP.. I do however, use an anonymous proxy server.. every little bit helps.

[RealitY]

Static... that sucks.

Speaking of Proxy, have you ever used Socks5 with KaZaa or do you know where to get a reliable one? I have looked around and found lists, but none work, or I could be missing something.

[Switeck]

Originally posted by Fatal Error@22 May 2003 - 16:11
Your not the only one that finds this very disturbing.. So far, Sony Music Entertainment Inc. is the biggest offender (123 attempts in 6hrs.) at least thats the way its listed on PG..

I did some homework and discovered that the IP range in question is actually registered to a company in NC, called Cable & Wireless so accordingly, I will be adding the entire IP range to the PG Database.

Where is the PG Database?

There seems to be multiple ones out there now...

[RealitY]

I mainly use http://www.p2pprivacy.tk/.