Comments on: Macrovision p2p brainfart

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:45:32 +0000

I use LimeWire to fileshare. Although most of the content that I download is free, I still preview in order to make sure I not getting ipod spam or such. I also set LimeWire so that I will not share and files it has completed downloading. Once a file is verified, I will drag it into a shared folder. I also block ips afer I get a certain number of spam files. If everyone does this, then this particular for of DRM via spam will have little chance of being successful.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 07:59:45 +0000

Perhaps this will cause some frustration on direct download p2p networks, but this technique won’t have much impact in the BitTorrent community. That means that they would have to upload and seed a torrent of garbage. That torrent is going to die a quick death and then the admin of the tracker will likely ban that IP (or /24 or /20 or whatever) after two or three of these and that will be the end of that. Then those IPs will usually windup on the blocklist.org list and any filter using those lists won’t allow a connection to the banned IPs.

As far as individually trying to toss bad blocks or pieces into a torrent, most BT clients have an option to set a ban on a particular peer after they have sent ‘N’ (user selectable parameter) instances of bad data.

The usually manner of trying to disrupt torrents is to childishly flood the tracker with repeated requests. The recent developments is distributed tracking are going to render this technique ineffective because there will no longer be a single target to fire at. If they try to start flooding the distributed network, they will just get treated like they were sending bad data and get banned. Plus when there are 500,000+ peers connected in the distributed net, it’s going to be fairly difficult to slow more than 1% of them down significantly without the anti-P2P’s ISP getting a bit annoyed by the sudden flood of traffic.

They’d probably have more success with rocks and sharp sticks.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 07:43:50 +0000

Isn’t this really the same thing as a good old fashioned SYN flood in a fancy schmancy package so they can charge alot of money for it?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:46:34 +0000

Avi Preview is an excellent tool for previewing video files. And makes rooting out fakes easy.

Also a tip to prevent identification by the mpaa/riaa on p2p networks:- There is a program called peer guardian, which blocks certain ip address ranges, very usefull.

If you want a copy for windows, heres a link for the download.
http://methlabs.org/projects/peerguardian-2-windows/

Generally, you should not block http. Just block the p2p related ip ranges. This should provide some protection on p2p networks like edonkey, fasttrack etc.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:35:26 +0000

WinMX How To Avoid Downloading Fake Files
http://www.vladd44.com/mx/fake.php

Robin of Sherwood addon
http://sherwood.sh.funpic.org/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=1

Recognising fake files on the Winmx Peer Network
http://www.geocities.com/anthony_beret/winmxfakefiles.html

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:41:51 +0000

Seems to me, this is a clear case of large scale spam on these networks.

Now what happends when individuals/companies send spam email? simple they are procecuted. Now clearly this company is flaunting it’s spamming practises, so why can’t it be held accountable under the criminal law?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:25:49 +0000

And this is new HOW ?

Laughing my ass off right now …

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:50:04 +0000

well im sure that will be the end of p2p as we know it - not - hahahahahahaha what a stupid idea do these assholes possess a brain hahahahahaha