PeerGuardian 2.0

[ericab]

Never used PeerGuardian, because I think it's just false security.

ummm....

5 times ?

[bladesharp]

I dont think all these are going to help much....

[fOrUmAs]

i use PG and ipfilter for utorrent

better than nothing

[pentomato]

But you can use the encryption from utorrent too

[parah]

Never used PeerGuardian, because I think it's just false security.

ummm....

5 times ?

Yeah, well... The forums were slow as hell, and I clicked "Submit reply" maybe a little too much

Perhaps a moderator should remove those extra posts

[Disme]

But you can use the encryption from utorrent too

The purpose of using encryption and using Peerguardian are completely different. One has nothing to do with the other.

[EyeCandy]

EDIT: Nevermind, I copied and pasted the actual word ipfilter.dat that Raven typed in his post, instead of typing it myself, and renamed the .dat to it. But he misspelled ipfilter and I didn't catch it until now.

Whats the correct spelling of ipfilter.dat....I don't think i misspelled anything...

[becomehokage]

Does anyone use peerguardian?

Whats that?

[dunson]

Speaking of false sense of security, I think you could say the same about private trackers. If we're smart enough to get into those uber-elite level 11 sites, what makes you think the RIAA/MPAA/etc couldn't do the same? It wouldn't surprise me if the copyright police are on EVERY private tracker, just waiting to strike when the time is right. They're probably here on FST too.

Logic would tell you that they're more interested in public trackers with a lot of users. But the point of these busts is to scare the people they don't catch. They'll never stop filesharing, but if they can scare some of us off by taking out a private tracker or two (ie Oink), then they've fulfilled their mission. I'm almost positive that some high-level tracker will go down in the next couple of years.

And I do use Peerguardian. I don't have any illusions that it's foolproof, but even if it makes me 1% safer, then it's better than nothing.

Of course it is possible. The difference of danger is clearly one of size and access. Of course they could probably infiltrate FTN, but they are more likely to go after What & Waffles, or Bitsoup or TorrentLeech or Scenetorrents. I doubt they are on every single private tracker, though I bet they are on most of those I mention.

I think we will see, sooner rather than later, a major takedown of torrent sites. The last few years they have been chasing many trackers from host to host, and it is only a matter of time before a sysop doesn't run fast enough or a host doesn't defend hard enough.

[vodopija]

Just done some research and found out this page http://www.teckh.com/?p=185 with script to automatically download files from internet. Did some modifications to rename the file after downloading.

Script:

'===DemoGetImageStream.vbs===
'
'Requires:
'
' - IE 5+ for "Microsoft.XMLHTTP"
' - ADO 2.5+ for "adodb.stream"
'
sSrcUrl = "http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/"
sDestFolder = "d:\"
sImageFile = "nipfilter.dat.gz"

set oHTTP = WScript.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

oHTTP.open "GET", sSrcUrl & sImageFile, False
oHTTP.send

set oStream = createobject("adodb.stream")
Const adTypeBinary = 1
Const adSaveCreateOverWrite = 2
oStream.type = adTypeBinary
oStream.open
oStream.write oHTTP.responseBody
oStream.savetofile sDestFolder & sImageFile, adSaveCreateOverWrite

set oStream = nothing
set oHTTP = nothing

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.MoveFile "d:\nipfilter.dat.gz" , "d:\ipfilter.dat"

WScript.Echo "Done..."

Just copy script to notepad and save as script.vbs (or some other name). Use scheduler to run it every week. Just change folders to one uTorrent uses.