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More secure BitTorrent downloads

If you are using BitTorrent or a similar P2P file sharing program, you should probably be using PeerGuardian2 to help protect yourself against the RIAA and other anti-P2P organizations. PeerGuardian2 keeps a blacklist of sites that it will not allow connections with, these blacklisted sites being sites known to be anti-P2P organizations that are looking to entrap you. It's obviously not perfect since it's only as good as the list, but it's an extra layer of precaution that is well worth taking. The only down-side is that it does not work on Vista yet, but they claim to be working on it, so check back often.
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Rating: 80% positive, 5 total Votes
Categories: BitTorrent security p2p
Added: on Aug 11, 2007 at 7:28 am
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: bittorrent p2p security site secure

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There is now a PeerGuardian 2.0 Beta 6c that does work with Vista although it can be a bit of a headache to get it started correctly somtimes,Due to the readme is not exactly correct but does point you in the right direction.So I thought I'd post this site up for you other vista users XD http://filehippo.com/download_peerguardian/
– Added by an anonymous user on Sep 22, 2008 at 12:05 pm
USING PEERGUARDIAN WILL NOT PROTECT YOU FROM THE RIAA WITH TORRENTS.

Just had to get that out plain and simple. Here's why. They collect the list of swarm users from the tracker, and often don't bother contacting the user's computer. Peerguardian will block them if they try to reach your computer, but by the time you connect to the tracker, even if you don't download anything, they can access your IP, so you're SOL.

Peerguardian may help, I always use it, but it won't provide the protection you need for torrent applications.
– Added by speedpsycho on Nov 12, 2008 at 7:04 pm
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