File trading up 10%, get Peer Guardian

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 12:57 am

After RIAA's recent anouncement of legal action against file "sharers", some p2p networks have seen usage up 10%:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7359-2003Jul3.html?nav=hptoc_tn

For those in the US who wants some level of protection, try Peer Guardian:

Peer Guardian wrote:

Latest: BETA v1.97b (4-May-2003)

PeerGuardian is a simple P2P-enemy blocking program. It was initially just made for a few friends on XS.

It has aggression control so users can control the CPU versus their connection (dial-up users can use it with 20% aggression) and works in conjunction with the PG IP Database, an on-line database of P2P-enemy IP addresses which users can submit to, vote on submissions or add comments on existing ranges. Latest version is compatible with the 'Bulk Update' feature of the WWW-based PG2-IP-DB.

Haven't used it myself, but looking at the description and the IP database, you may be lucky enough that 1 of your favorite RIAA IRC bots is on 1 of these IPs. Get it here: http://methlab.tech.nu/

Anyone who used it, feel free to comment on its effectiveness.