We have none of the above anymore.

If someone has, feel free to go ahead!

I recently downloaded the latest IpfilterXB18-Sheitan blocklist to see what it offered. My opinion? Not much.

For instance, there are a little less than 170 entries in the Bluetack ipfilter before the first entry in the IpfilterX file that I acquired. I won’t comment on the rest of IpfilterX, it isn’t worth the hassles and quibbling that would cause.

I will state that I may use parts of it to supplement Bluetack’s ipfilter, Bluetack hasn’t been helpful in over a year in keeping up with the thousands of sites that have been recruited by the anti-P2P crowd.

Someone here mentioned universities–It is obvious to me that they have long been actively participating in anti-P2P themselves, contracting out their spare computer time to get in on the action for a few bucks.
The Asians, Australians and even Africans have been jumping in big-time, not to mention large corporations, small software and hardware suppliers and even school districts. In desperation, before I wrote my own applications to generate denies, I was manually blocking huge blocks of IPs from the Pacific Basin, especially China. My rationale was that there weren’t that many BT users out there downloading software anyway.

Things have gotten so bad that I am actively blocking my own ISP, the bastards at Time-Warner who have been using every trick in the book to load rootkits on computers I use for P2P. I have gotten fairly adept at rooting out the rootkits using Hirens utilities and DOS/NTFS commands.

I got tired of the whois/manual entry of deny records and wrote a system to automate the process. It isn’t perfect by far, but the attackers are legion and descend like hounds from Hell. Some of the sites may actually be good guys, but I still get decent bandwidth even if some are inadvertently denied.

I’m not going to criticize anyone for their beliefs, but if anyone wants about seven years or so of tedious labor, email me at oledawg@bigfoot.com and I will send my personal permit and deny files for their perusal.

My own experience in the computer business goes back to the ’60s when I was a wet-behind-the-ears computer programmer writing assembly language applications on IBM mainframes. My last assembler gig was thirteen years ago, but after about ten years working for others, I started a small software house in the 80s and three hardware maintenance companies in the 90s that paid the bills until I retired at the end of the last century.
Since then I have piddled with PCs 24/7, surfing the ‘net, programming and managing to download a little less than a terabyte while maintaining an average seed ratio around 1.5.

I just set up mine under ubuntu, works fine, with nothing to do

Reading an interview of these nexus23 people ,
they started it all… not Bluetack that just copied from Method who was a nexus23 mate…
So they are the pioneers , not just a rival team ,
and who would use bluetack nowadays , they are like their filters… hogs ….