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I haven't bought a new album from a retail record store in years and years. Whenever I desire a peice of plastic (which is frequent enough) I'll pick it up at a used store, earning the artist and label no money anyway. How long until second hand shops are shut down by CRIA?

Anyone who thinks Canada is freer than the States is full of crap. We are simply 1 or 2 years behind our big fat brother downstairs. We'll adopt every law they enact (file swapping) and maintain every nonsensical law they uphold (marijuana posession) until the end of time. Why? Because we don't want Dubya to drop a W-bomb on our various beaver hatcheries.

All hail America Jr., land of the slightly freer (until 1 year later).

In the mean time, keep doing what you do. Make a statement by defying the law. Protect yourself while you do it. Use PeerGuardian 2.

At least for those with Windows boxes. My two favorites:

Spybot S&D It's free and it "innouculates." Regular updates too.

Spywareblaster. A little reduncancy, and it has a nice Flash killing tool as well.

Honorable mention:

Peer Guardian. In addition to RIAA IP address killing, it prevents loading of DoubleClick ads and snoopware. Regular blocklist updates, and IP addy's may be manually added.

Spybot S&D is the best, as long as you keep it updated and "immunize."

Another good one is Spywareblaster. I don't know if it does any more in the way of ad/spyware removal than Spybot S&D does, but it's "Flash killer" is very cool to get rid of those increasingly obnoxious Flash ads. It will prevent the repeated download request (annoying!), or alternatively, it will prevent Flash animations from running once Flash is already installed (an easy click to re-enable if desired).

Although not billed as an ad/spyware removal tool, Peer Guardian blocks all known DoubleClick, Cydoor, and TRIBAL FUSION domains, as well as other ad networks known for tracking. The ads don't even load. Added benefit: Stealth Sufing Mode to RIAA, et al.

Full list of blocked IP addresses.

Spybot S&D is the best, as long as you keep it updated and "immunize."

Another good one is Spywareblaster. I don't know if it does any more in the way of ad/spyware removal than Spybot S&D does, but it's "Flash killer" is very cool to get rid of those increasingly obnoxious Flash ads. It will prevent the repeated download request (annoying!), or alternatively, it will prevent Flash animations from running once Flash is already installed (an easy click to re-enable if desired).

Although not billed as an ad/spyware removal tool, Peer Guardian blocks all known DoubleClick, Cydoor, and TRIBAL FUSION domains, as well as other ad networks known for tracking. The ads don't even load. Added benefit: Stealth Sufing Mode to RIAA, et al.

Full list of blocked IP addresses.

PeerGuardian

Here's what I don't get...

Why doesn't some independent music folks, or geeks, or whomever, put some files on KaZaA.. (maybe named 'HowToTrickTheRIAA') wait until that file is d/l by one of the known-evil-IP's and then serve them with a subpeona to look at their harddrives.
(BTW, bittorrent would be perfect because the IP tracking/correlation is good and the file would be positively uploaded to other folks, thereby infringing on my intellectual-property)

If you're concerned about others violating your privacy or intruding via your favorite P2P program, check this out:

If you run Windows only, check out PeerGuardian. Be warned that the application hogs a lot of CPU.

If you have a Linux firewall like iptables, then you're in luck. Simply download PeerGuardian's list of known IPs to block and convert it using ipblacklist_convert perl script.

And please keep in mind that music and software piracy will only give companies like RIAA an excuse to limit our freedoms. Stop stealing.

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Looks like they can be found here (in both HTML and "plain" text).

link for other interested

link for other interested

4) Learn about and use additional tools that may be useful for blocking "enemy" scans of your system.

Something like Peer Guardian

From the site:

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.

PeerGuardian is freeware.

There is an interesting review of Peer Guardian that also highlights some interesting points regarding blocking "enemy" IP scanning.

From the review:

"PeerGuardian blocks out known IP ranges used by MediaForce, MediaDefender, BayTSP, Ranger, OverPeer, RIAA, MPAA & NetPD by default," says Method on the app page."

Also, the PeerGuardian site also has a listing of "enemy" IP's that is updated periodically (not sure of the frequency).

after the horse has left, but for what it's worth, there's Peer Guardian, which uses a constantly updated list of IP addresses which have been declared "bad".

Users of the Agnitum Outpost firewall can download the Blockpost plugin which blocks access to sites at the IP level (i.e. you would not even be able to ping such restricted sites). A Blockpost filter list based on the P2P Enemies list can be found in this thread.

Users of the Agnitum Outpost firewall can download the Blockpost plugin which blocks access to sites at the IP level (i.e. you would not even be able to ping such restricted sites). A Blockpost filter list based on the P2P Enemies list can be found in this thread.

Doh.

DDOSing the RIAA corporate webside does not matter a shit, it does not affect their business at all. This kind of childish "capture the flag" mentality does not help in this fight. Instead, working for FSF or EFF in their campaigns for freedom might bring some positive results or, for example, supporting these guys might actually create some useful tools for preveting RIAA's illegal activities..

V.

Well,

Not so surprisingly the other side is already monitoring the RIAA activities and in this case some of results are already in public. For example, Peer-Guardian tries to protect the P2P-clients from the hostile IP-addresses. There's a quite nice article about the topic in Security Focus.

V.

its a win only app available here

OverPeer:65.174.255.255
OverPeer:65.160.0.0-65. 160.127.255
Ranger:216.122.0.0-216.122.255.255
R anger:204.92.244.0-204.92.244.255
MediaForce:65.1 92.0.0-65.192.0.255
MediaForce:65.223.0.0-65.223. 255.255
MediaForce:4.43.96.0-4.43.96.255
MediaDe fender:66.79.0.0-66.79.255.255
MediaDefender:64.2 25.292.0-64.225.292.127
RIAA:208.192.0.0-208.255. 255.255
RIAA:208.225.90.0-208.225.90.255
RIAA:12 .150.191.0-12.150.191.255
MPAA:63.199.57.96-63.19 9.57.128
MPAA:64.166.187.128-64.166.187.192
MPAA :198.70.114.0-198.70.114.255
MPAA:209.67.0.0-209. 67.255.255
NetPD:207.155.128.0-207.155.255.255
N etPD:128.241.0.0-128.241.255.255
UnknownC&DCop:64 .106.170.128-64.106.170.192
BayTSP:209.204.128.0- 209.204.191.255
Vidius:207.155.128.0-207.155.255. 255
Xupiter.com:63.236.32.50

It currently blocks this range of IP's, so I would guess that's a good place to start with in your firewall