Got Caught File Sharing on Utorrent

[zot]

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.

[anon]

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.

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).

[Frankthetank1]

so if on win7 its not?

Use peerblock

Built-in ipfilter.dat support or P2PFire (if on XP or below) > PeerBlock.

[anon]

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.

[Frankthetank1]

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?

[zot]

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.

[anon]

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?

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.