To those of you that pirate movies/software/music etc.

[Jordan]

In this day and age... its nothing new, and from most of our peers its seen as perfectly normal to download music, movies, software. Hey its at your fingertips, its free, and no one is stopping your right?

I'm a bit of a file collector myself, I'm going to leave it at that.

Alot of people I know in that community have been busted lately. Universal is cracking down HARDCORE on people pirating their property. Of course many other companies are as well, but Universal has been hard at work spying on P2P program users.

Before you go "Oh well doesn't apply to me, I use blahblah P2P application, and it 128bit encrypts data so I can't be traced" get your head out of your ass. Everything you do still leaves a perfectly trackable IP number. Trackable by anyone that knows how. For instance every post on this forum has the clients IP logged. I can tell any of you where you live (what city) and who your ISP is.

Lately Universal and other companies have been connecting to P2P services, and harvesting IP's of those downloading their wares.

I mostly use WinMX and BitTorrent myself.

Both of which leave your IP very easy to trace, but only if the said tracees can connect to your IP, and monitor your traffic.

I recently found a great program that prevents just that.

Peer Guardian.

http://xs.tech.nu/

It has a huge database of known bad IP's. IP's that belong to the companies set out to bust your ass.

It currently has 70,116,514 bad IP's in its database. If any of those IP's attempt to connect to you, it closes the connection, and shuts them down before they realize they just got owned.

[Inspar8r]

Does this work with the searches the RIAA is doing? do i leave this program running or what? i just Dl'ed it for kicks...

[gstuning]

Here in Iceland none of those companies can gain access to the file sharing community I check out,

All foreign IP´s are locked out, only valid icelandic ip´s are in, and the local distributors don´t give another look as Iceland is known to be the biggest software pirating nation of all time it´s all known and nothing gets done,

And those big boys are never going to win cause every song, video or movie or software is already in a privatly owned FTP server that only selected can gain access to and it will always be that way,

The amount of GB some of those harcore´s have is amazing, some are crossing into the 500GB area and that is a 16year old hacker kid,

I used to collect E30 pics and had more then 4000 pics I also had a desktop picture swapper that would put a new desktop every 5min I liked that one,

I also like to download videos, mostly car related and funny clips from SNL,

You guys heard about DC+ right??
Every "hub" has about 50-1000 people in it, and publicly available hubs are more then 25000 in total so enough files for everyone for ever :)

[Jordan]

Peer Guardian must always be running.

He sits in the system tray when minimized, constantly monitoring Kernel activities, and shutting down unwelcome connections.

[postmaster]

i run Peer Guardian on my proxy server 24/7

[Fred]

That is a great program. Excellent tip. :up:

Fred

[Nick325is]

Thanks for the tip!



Nick

[Erick]

So does this make you completely invulnerable or just reduces the risk? Either way it looks like it's good stuff. Thanks for the tip.

[Digitalwave]

Now does anybody know how I can access a P2P program or be able to do file transfers on mIRC when my college network seems to block them?

I can do file transfer over AIM, thats about it.

[BMW BMXER]

Bitorrent is good.

[Bill 84 318i]

Now does anybody know how I can access a P2P program or be able to do file transfers on mIRC when my college network seems to block them?

I can do file transfer over AIM, thats about it.

Have you tried changing the port the p2p program uses?

[Jordan]

So does this make you completely invulnerable or just reduces the risk? Either way it looks like it's good stuff. Thanks for the tip.

Reduces the risk.

TJ: Your network is no doubt run through a proxy server that filters such traffic out. Colleges are sick of being sued, so they shut down P2P traffic.

[Bill 84 318i]

Another thought TJ - my college doesn't shut p2p down because of lawsuits, but because they're sick of wasting bandwidth. So they limited the whole university to 5meg/sec or something ridicuously small.

However, they don't give a damn about traffic inside campus, so it's an unwritten rule to use Limewire on campus and most popular music is available. Any chance your school 'shares' a p2p program?

[Jarvis]

You may just need to pick a different (less popular) file-sharing program.
My school completely blocked out Kazaa, but allows Ares because it's smaller/has spawned less lawsuits.

[Digitalwave]

I have changed the ports, and I even tried using the ports that AIM uses when it does a file transfer.