Thread: Peerblock what a menace!!

I installed peerblock to add a extra level of protection to my pc.
I'm giving u a shot at the protection.
Comment what do ya think..

[Ye to shrif trailer hai picture abhi baki hai boss...
He blocked about 2000 connetions in last 4 hrs..
Blacks are incoming
Blues are outgoing]

What does it do ?

It blocks anti peer to peer corps.

So these are the anti peer to peer crops blocked ? Never got any disturbance while downloading from TPB. Is this app necessary ? What do these corps do ?

The theory is if you were sitting in USA next to this and before that and downloading a movie that hasn't yet released-You would need this.And about 'problems' the only arrest I've seen to be happening are (In India) some uploaders from hydrabad.

Even I never had any issues Do u get hash fails while downloading new
trendy stuffs?

I am an average downloader. Downloads only some famous /recent English movies. Otherwise settle for Indian content. Never seen high hash falls. I think the highest one was 2.2 MB. But one of them was 12 MB.

only some famous /recent English movies

There's the prob the hash fails are caused by torrent pollution by anti p2p agencies.New movies are the biggest target.For new movies I never use TPB.I'd rather use alternates like in denoid(safer not fullproof) or Rapidshare secure SSL connection.

Got it. So this Peer block will reduce/nullify the hash fall while downloading such movies. Nice to know that we don't have this issue. Also since some one click hosting sites are offering " resume " function, I have started to use direct links.

You can select type of lists to block, avoid lists that are too careful and use only anti p2p lists.

Exactly Thats the issue.
'Too Careful'.

From where do you get these lists ? Is it another app or we can add the list in utorrent (using utorrent 2.2).

Thanks for the info.

You can always get ipfilter for utorrent from

http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz

You install peerblock You can update and add lists from there.

So you know..

Completely useless software UNLESS you are in a country like the US or a EU nation where companies actually give more than 2 <expletive> about piracy.

I guess peerblock could potentially lower consumption by eliminating a little bit of unnecessary traffic; but then again doesn't everyone use night unlimited for torrents anyway ?

I guess peerblock could potentially lower consumption by eliminating a little bit of unnecessary traffic; but then again doesn't everyone use night unlimited for torrents anyway ?

Yeah that And what unlimited download schemes are for??
Now with 3G everybody can do that (not p2p maybe but thats not far) in mobile too!1

What worthwhile does everybody do with ur broadband??