I Installed a P2P Blocking Package Tonight

[Simplex3]

If you're running any p2p software I highly recommend you install Peer Guardian or MoBlock. I run Azureus and see for Kubuntu's DVD and FreeBSD 6.2 just to give back to the community, and I've been seeing strange crap on the firewall logs. So on the advice of a buddy I installed this software which basically keeps a blacklist of known RIAA, MPAA, etc addresses so that when an app on your PC tries to contact them or they try to contact you the packets are dropped. No packets, no evidence collection about what you're doing.

I'll bet not 5s goes by that I don't get a blocked inbound packet from one of these snapperheads. Hell, I just got pinged by Time Warner Telecom and I'm on freaking Everest. These "Technological Systems CJVC" jerkoffs are incredibly persistent. You know, if you're going to write some software to sniff out pirates you might want to make it smart enough to not wind up downloading a bunch of s**t you can legally get for free.

http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2