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PeerBlock ~Effective IP Filter or Harmful~
kyanwan:
You're missing a key thing here.
You have free access to the list of blocked servers, right?
So do they.
It's no big deal to change your IP. Any competent firm would use the list / software themselves to find out if they've been detected. Then move.
Duck & cover. Duck & cover. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_cover
[ One of the reasons I don't use it. ]
dogsinafen:
--- Quote from: zougou1 on June 10, 2010, 05:35:30 PM ---I use PeerBlock -- it's nice to think you're protecting yourself, but no matter what you do, your ISP can ultimately know what you're doing (unless I'm mistaken), so I believe it's a false sense of security.
--- End quote ---
Point of peerblock has nothing to do with your ISP.
If you want your ISP to not know what you're up too then you need a VPN.
zougou1:
--- Quote from: dogsinafen on June 10, 2010, 07:12:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: zougou1 on June 10, 2010, 05:35:30 PM ---I use PeerBlock -- it's nice to think you're protecting yourself, but no matter what you do, your ISP can ultimately know what you're doing (unless I'm mistaken), so I believe it's a false sense of security.
--- End quote ---
Point of peerblock has nothing to do with your ISP.
If you want your ISP to not know what you're up too then you need a VPN.
--- End quote ---
I thought the point of PeerBlock is to keep certain people from connecting to your computer and then using that to sue you. Instead, certain people can sue your ISP to get your name from your IP and then sue you. Or am I missing something? ???
K7IA:
--- Quote from: zougou1 on June 10, 2010, 07:26:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: dogsinafen on June 10, 2010, 07:12:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: zougou1 on June 10, 2010, 05:35:30 PM ---I use PeerBlock -- it's nice to think you're protecting yourself, but no matter what you do, your ISP can ultimately know what you're doing (unless I'm mistaken), so I believe it's a false sense of security.
--- End quote ---
Point of peerblock has nothing to do with your ISP.
If you want your ISP to not know what you're up too then you need a VPN.
--- End quote ---
I thought the point of PeerBlock is to keep certain people from connecting to your computer and then using that to sue you. Instead, certain people can sue your ISP to get your name from your IP and then sue you. Or am I missing something? ???
--- End quote ---
It is often the copyright protection agents/organizations that try to determine who is actually breaking the copyright laws by collecting IP addresses of peers and then requesting personal details (name, address) from the ISPs using this IP address.
One objective of IP range blocking is to prevent these agents from establishing a connection with your client and acquire enough information to contact your ISP.
If your ISP can be held responsible for preventing copyright infringement according to regulations/laws then obviously you are doomed unless you are always using encrypted communications with ALL peers or a VPN to a seedbox somewhere else.
Well, IMO the copyright protection agents don't even need to connect your client, they only need to query the tracker about who is seeding/leeching that torrent. The tracker keeps the record of all peers' IP addresses and this is accessible by all peers in that swarm :-)
Sosseres:
I don't see the point of these features when using torrents based on a tracker. If you download things in decentralised networks it is useful since there are just small nodes with the info for a short while.
For a tracker based torrent it is just a bad thing. It takes up resources, helps minimally and blocks legit IPs. Over all it makes your torrenting experience worse without effecting the safety in a big way. If the trackers ran them it would have some effect, but they could get the info in any case.
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