Hitchhiker Nation

read through that and then checked out the Logistep site

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LOGISTEP AG is a specialized privately controlled Anti-Piracy Company Limited incorporated in and operating out of Switzerland on an international basis.
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Not sure on Swiss law but as Switzerland is a ‘neutral’ country, I have a strong suspicion that what they are doing is illegal under international law…

Mind though, that doesn’t bother them that much. I’ve seen them do some very dubious practices over the last few years….

It most certainly does not block all the ranges used by Netsentry, Macrovision, and their ilk, we know this by comparing the ones we have detected on winmx against the ones on the blutak blocklists that pg uses, upon trying to pass these numbers on to blutak they took days to check out the information and sadly the media companies move faster than they do, 8 out of the 11 ip ranges given to then where swapped within 4 hours to other unlisted ones.
Only the automated winmx blocklist was keeping folks safe whilst pg users where once again easy pickings for the media companies.

The solution is rather simple, ensure pg can be updated more than once a day ( as opposed to once in 24 hours ), and a system needs to be devised for an open port listening method to indicate to users that an urgent update is ready for deployment, only these two modifications and a specialist team of watchers from each network to generate and maintain the lists is likely to keep p2p out of reach of the forces ranged against it.

So although I have obfuscation turned on, I have a couple of Shareaza clients that I am connected to at the moment.

@ 11: Leeching is no option. It’s disgusting, the worst possible antisocial behaviour in an environment that relies on social behaviour. Not uploading is even worse for the network than all those anti-p2p-lobbying and monitoring. Everybody should use eMule Mods that support DLP, for instance Xtreme or ScarAngel.

A little safety goes along way

Download PeerGuardian here:
http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

1.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if—

(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;

(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and

(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.

(2) The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at—

(a) any particular program or data;

(b) a program or data of any particular kind; or

(c) a program or data held in any particular computer.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.

Computer misuse act 1990 for any company or person to access your computer or your computers data trafic or files without your authorisation is a breach not only of this act but also of your human rights

All sounds pretty illegal to me!