Peerguardian Manual (wuz 'blocklist update bullshit')

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

I keep seeing Peerguardian replace its entire list of some 700m IP addresses with something like 50k instead of ADDING them to the list, leaving some pretty obviously huge gaps in its coverage you can drive an antipiracy corporation through. This has been happening with more frequency, and the delay until the next update that fixes the problem is getting longer. I can't find any mention of the issue on either Bluetack or Phoenix Labs, but it puts all PG users at grave risk!




EDIT: Peerguardian can be had at http://phoenixlabs.org/ to protect you from miscreants like MediaDefender, the MAFIAA, or other digital British-Royal-Navy types getting into your computer and shooting the subpoena cannons whether you're Cap'n Blackbeard Bittorrent or a lily-white sloop driver minding your own business on the high seas of the Internet. It also can stop many spy and adware attacks as well.

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthread.php?t=15020

It appears I found how to fix the problem in future. Oh happy day!

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

Request this be stickied please.

[Bounty]

Request this be stickied please.

You're requesting that the G&C mods make a sticky for a tool that facilitates filesharing and has no other real uses, just because you couldn't RTFM or check the site?

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

Request this be stickied please.

You're requesting that the G&C mods make a sticky for a tool that facilitates filesharing and has no other real uses, just because you couldn't RTFM or check the site?

I did eventually RTFM and check their site, you tit. It doesn't facilitate filesharing, it just blocks assholes who want you to pay them money to go away whether rightly or wrongly, be they MAFIAA, fake-antispyware hucksters, or obnoxious ad companies.

Oh, and you're a fucktard for automatically assuming illegal filesharing. What about people who legitimately use Bittorrent to distribute their content simply because it's the best way to freeware files that just happen to be cumbersomely large? MAFIAA don't care if that's all you're doing, they'll dick with you anyway.

[Ace Pace]

Request this be stickied please.

You're requesting that the G&C mods make a sticky for a tool that facilitates filesharing and has no other real uses, just because you couldn't RTFM or check the site?

I did eventually RTFM and check their site, you tit. It doesn't facilitate filesharing, it just blocks assholes who want you to pay them money to go away whether rightly or wrongly, be they MAFIAA, fake-antispyware hucksters, or obnoxious ad companies.

Oh, and you're a fucktard for automatically assuming illegal filesharing. What about people who legitimately use Bittorrent to distribute their content simply because it's the best way to freeware files that just happen to be cumbersomely large? MAFIAA don't care if that's all you're doing, they'll dick with you anyway.

Uh Einy....Why would the RIAA or any of their contracted P2P watchers even bother tracking peers who are on legal torrents?

[Bounty]

Uh Einy....Why would the RIAA or any of their contracted P2P watchers even bother tracking peers who are on legal torrents?

Don't let common sense get in the way of his attention-whoring paranoia!

[Ace Pace]

Uh Einy....Why would the RIAA or any of their contracted P2P watchers even bother tracking peers who are on legal torrents?

Don't let common sense get in the way of his attention-whoring paranoia!

I was much amused by the fact PeerGuardian offers to block .edu IP blocks, .EDU of all things!

[Bounty]

I did eventually RTFM and check their site

Which most people know they have to do before they panic. It's not exactly something that needs to be stickied.

it just blocks assholes who want you to pay them money to go away whether rightly or wrongly, be they MAFIAA, fake-antispyware hucksters, or obnoxious ad companies.

It's a piece of software designed to "protect" you on P2P networks. If you're doing nothing illegal, it does precisely dick - I have serious doubts about it's "malware blocking" and at any rate, that functionality can be duplicated by measures that don't present themselves are tools for pirates. And I don't need to remind you that there already is a sticky for security tools that don't skirt the line between legal and illegal.

Oh, and you're a fucktard for automatically assuming illegal filesharing.

Say with a straight face that you didn't imply illegal filesharing. Or is there a meaning of

Cap'n Blackbeard Bittorrent

that doesn't have to do with piracy and P2P?

What about people who legitimately use Bittorrent to distribute their content simply because it's the best way to freeware files that just happen to be cumbersomely large?

What about them?

[Ace Pace]

What about people who legitimately use Bittorrent to distribute their content simply because it's the best way to freeware files that just happen to be cumbersomely large?

What about them?

Havn't you heard? All of us downloading Open Office, uBuntu, Americas Army, and other legal programs are all targeted by the MAFIAA who all want to infect us with DRM, which is a deadly virus willing to kill our computers.

[Bounty]

Havn't you heard? All of us downloading Open Office, uBuntu, Americas Army, and other legal programs are all targeted by the MAFIAA who all want to infect us with DRM, which is a deadly virus willing to kill our computers.

"Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our
desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or
more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in
battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our
fortunes; for this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to
sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth."

It'd be funny how Einhander keeps charging if it wasn't so damn embarrassing.