http://www.strongvpn.com
http://www.vpnaccounts.com
http://www.findnot.com

there are others, just google

I am now with outside vpn providers, and have not had this happened. It’s maybe too much work for them.

In other words, all they really need is to see your IP address associated with the torrent.

In other words, they don’t need to connect to your IP address directly, they only need to connect to the tracker, read your IP address from there, and add you to the list of “get affidavits about the following IP addresses.”

In other words, PG and its ilk are useless, *if* your goal in running them is to prevent being sued by the *IAA. None of these blockers prevent your IP addresses from being recorded on the tracker, and the companies don’t need to connect to you to sue you.

(In other words, what system and Cain have been saying.)

To those saying that PG is a waste of time because it’s amateur, blocks arbitrary domains, etc. So what? If it does not negatively effect the use of your computer it’s still better protection than no protection, even if it’s nowhere close to perfect.

And finally, to those saying that copyright owners have to download data from you in order to sue you, this is incorrect: in the US, for example, the RIAA has *never* had to prove that what you are sharing is actually the copyrighted material that their client owns. Courts all over the country have been satisfied with the RIAA simply showing that the defendant was a) using a P2P app, and b) making available a file with a name and filesize that makes it likely to be the copyrighted file in question. They’ve never had to prove that an actual transfer of copyrighted work occurred. In all but a very few of their 25,000+ cases, the “making available for sharing” argument has won the day and the defendant has been hit with a hefty judgment.

Next, total anonymity is the holy grail of piracy… a fantasy that is impossible to acheive without utter chaos and disorder and on top of that a global network that doesn’t function properly a mile away from where you are.

And finally… PeerGuardian 2 is just about the best protection you can get for free… sure it’s not foolproof, but it helps and with all the enemies P2P filesharing has made over the years, we need as much helps as we can get. If you don’t use PG2, don’t come out and spout shit about something you don’t know enough about, and if you use PG2 and think that you are totally protected, you are just as much of a n00b as that retarded video guy.

In short, use PG2, know you’re never going to be fully protected.

@ skyforce (38) : You are right PG blocks direct connection, but they already know my IP from the peer.

Maybe that they have an advantange from that. They not contribute the -maybe- illegal act but only watching it. But wait: without them in the swarm it would not be the same… Any idea?

@ system (32) : you say: “In short, the information they log is part of their “conversation” with you and can be legally recorded. Logging all data flowing in and out of someone elses machine would involve electronic eavesdropping, and would be illegal.”

So they do NOT know in real what is inside the package I am sharing.
The name of a torrent does not prove for its content.

– All torrents should be named away from the files it stands for, all files in the package should get different labels too.
– The real filenames should be shared with a second torrent. A clever software should assemble files and real file names on my computer.

According to EG its illegal for any company to put you in a database without your approval[/quote]

they do it anyway.