The P2P spys

[Treebeard]

Though this may interest some people in here. Found it on another forum.

Recently it has come to our intension that various companies are actively monitoring downloads and tracking your connection on most P2P networks or intentionally pollute them with bogus files.

Companies like MediaForce, Ranger, BayTSP, MediaDefender, etc, either scan P2P networks and collect data on files that they upload to you and what you download from them and then pass the data onto either the company who contracts them to collect it (RIAA, IFPI, MPAA) or the police if its highly illegal. It is also known that they intentionally pollute P2P networks with false files, stealing bandwidth off thousands of people and clogging up the network.

So, what you can do about it?
Just add the following IP blocks into your firewall blocking definitions and keep them off your back...

OverPeer:65.174.255.255
OverPeer:65.160.0.0-65.160.127.255
Ranger:216.122.0.0-216.122.255.255
Ranger:204.92.244.0-204.92.244.255
MediaForce:65.192.0.0-65.192.0.255
MediaForce:65.223.0.0-65.223.255.255
MediaForce:4.43.96.0-4.43.96.255
MediaDefender:66.79.0.0-66.79.255.255
RIAA:208.225.90.0-208.225.90.255
RIAA:12.150.191.0-12.150.191.255
RIAA:208.192.0.0-208.192.255.255
MPAA:63.199.57.96-63.199.57.128
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
NetPD: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
GAIN(spyware):64.94.89.0-64.94.89.255
GAINCME(spyware):66.35.247.0-66.35.247.255
GAINCME(spyware):66.35.229.0-66.35.229.255
Xupiter.com:63.236.32.50
Xupiter.com(mirror):63.208.235.30

[Gazorgan]

More FYI. There have been numerous viruses on the P2P networks. The most common one is to respond to any search witha small executable. Anyone that runs these deserves what they get. However, since the virus respond to a search witha bogus file, what's to keep a program from responding to any querry with bogus data? Nothing, absolutely nothing.

So, basically, any halfway competent C (++) programmer can make a P2P program that reponds amd uploads with bogus data. Since the vogue now is to d/l from multiple peers, you get a corrupted file. Very simple. After days spent getting damaged files, most people give up. This doesn't include the regular corrupted data being propogated from overworked OS/under CPU'd/ slow DSL connections.

Solutions are to only d/l off of 1 person ( hope your patient ) or give up P2P. Bittorrent isn't as bad, it has a checksum built into it, but Kazaa is doomed.

For every newb that started a post with " I downloaded this AVI... ", re-read above.

[rallynavvie]

Unfortunately for Kazaa the idiots already downloaded the corrupt files and leave them sitting in their shared content rather than deleting them. Otherwise adding the above IPs to your hosts file will keep you from being bothered by them. Doesn't anyone use DC++ anymore?

[DivXExpert]

I don't think they know that they will never be able to stop p2p. I doesn't take long for a new one to spawn.

But what makes me mad is that you can use p2p for perfectly legal things, yet they still try to stop it. I download old versions of freeware programs off Kazaa, sometimes the new one has a bug. Is this a crime? Then why do I get a corrupt file? Because they just don't like the idea of p2p. Whether its legal or illegal. That is wronge.

What if I download a dvd rip of a dvd I already own? is that illegal? I can back up my dvds myself, but I can't let someone who does better rips than me do it for me? The only reason I have ever downloaded a movie (and it was a movie i already owned) was to compare it to my own rip. You know see what I was doing wronge, or what to work on.

[tgpo]

Many music artists were found on Napster. Shaggy for example. A DJ downloaded a song of his in Hawaii and started playing it. Word then spread and made him rich. Same thing with Afroman. In fact he thanks napster in the liner notes!

[ZippyP.]

So, what you can do about it?
Just add the following IP blocks into your firewall blocking definitions and keep them off your back...

Anybody with tips on how to do that? I'm running Zonealarm under XP.

[THE RIPPER]

Go here and get peer guardian,its a small firewall that blocks out the ip adresses of the mpaa and more. http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4834

[bizeebee]

Is there anywhere else to download it?

[LanEvo7]

This stuff is called SPYWARE. Its on many freeware applications. You can use a program called Lavasoft Adware to remove it, but some programs will not run if you remove the spyware part.