The end of the day though, there has been zero proof that a blocklist works. Every study that has investigated it has said the same things. The exception is one study that is often pointed to by the pro-blocklist crowd. Unfortunately the study states in it’s assumptions that the lists are 100% accurate, and effectively boils down to saying ‘blocklist programs block the IP’s they’re told to block’ – a stunning revelation….

In my experaince (and I’ve been studying blocklists like iBlocklist’s for several years) they are trivial to bypass, and are filled with mostly fakes, and scattergunned companies, added for the sake of adding. Utorrent.com has been added twice, first for ‘working with antip2p retspan’ (where Ludde, in a separate deal, sold a dll to a company that was once owned by another company that tried a touch of antip2p work 3 years earlier. SERIOUSLY. Then, it was later added again, for “working with the MPAA” – it was when it opened it’s store over licensed copies, because, you know selling something means ‘actively working for’ in their lexicon. “Their” being bluetack, the major list provider iblocklist reccomends. In fact, check the forums on there, and see how many get notices despite running the lists. i’d say do the same on the bluetack forums, but they delete those posts – in their world, letters don’t happen if you run their lists….

Now, it might make someone more curious about a connection but that does not (in any way, shape or form) give cause for circumstantial evidence as corporate networks are configured to be like this on purpose for security concern reasons.

I strongly recommend more people donate to Iblocklist.com to help keep this excellent service on-line for the foreseeable future as keeping a popular website such as this on-line while keeping all the lists up to date certainly costs a lot of time of money.

I bought a very nice umbrella 4 years ago, and in the time I’ve owned it, I’ve not been struck by lightning. By your logic, that umbrella has been protecting me from lightning strikes.

Of course, an umbrella would actually draw lightning TO me, rather than away, should a storm be near, and it’s that bit that’s the point. If there’s no storm, no electrical potential, then there’s not going to be a strike no matter what you do or don’t do. That’s what you have experienced the last 4 years. If a logging bot is around though (on the same torrent as you), your blocklist will draw it to you, as an umbrella will draw a lightning bolt to it’s holder.