"Even the most complete blocklist will not prevent a determined corporate spy," he says. Skey warns that blocklists don't stop snoopers from looking at what you share, but makes their life more difficult. Dominic Skey, who heads up BlueTack, takes blocks of IP addresses (lists of known hackers, the RIAA or anyone you don't want snooping around your hard drive), and converts them so they can be used with specific P2P programs. It offers file sharing, chat and instant messaging and employs a similar technique to Filetopia's bounce nodes.īlueTack is another IP blocking system. The 23-year-old Englishman Tim Leonard, who developed PeerGuardian, has also developed XS, an anonymous P2P system. PeerGuardian's list of blocked IP addresses has passed 4m and is growing. The problem is that the RIAA and other music and film industry representatives can keep changing IP addresses.
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If the RIAA wanted to snoop on me, they could see my files, but they couldn't download them. PeerGuardian is not an anonymous system, but an add-on that blocks "enemy" IP addresses from accessing your files. Given the sparseness of its screens and the lack of a help facility, I wouldn't recommend this to a novice. The upper limit on the number of users in a cluster is 50. Although Waste is really a chat and IRC program with CIA-proof cryptography, it can be used for file sharing among small groups of friends - a dozen people, say. Frankel posted the application on the web without his employer's permission, and AOL has since been trying to stamp out proliferation of copies - a futile act. Waste was developed by AOL employee Justin Frankel. However, it has more bugs than the Royal Entomological Society. ES5 allows users to send connection requests through intermediary proxy servers throughout the world so that the download destination of a file cannot be traced. Kabir points out that this is not to be confused with a corporate firewall/proxy/socks proxy. Downloads can be about as fast and reliable as a Virgin train.įrom Gaza City in Palestine, Ras Kabir brings us EarthStation5, another anonymous P2P system that allows you to download via a proxy server. This way, the user only sees the IP of the bouncer machine. That is, you connect to the machine where the bouncer resides, and this machine connects to another user's computer. Not only does Filetopia use strong cipher encryption, it also uses a "bouncer" described as "a program that 'bounces' connections from one machine to another". However, Hal Bring man, a Blubster spokesman, says you can download what is essentially Blubster, but without the spyware, from their sister company, Piolet. A word of warning, though: Blubster is bundled with Gator spyware. Blubster, aimed at your average P2P user, comes with an MP3 player, and supports the Ogg Vorbis file format (the open source compression and streaming technology).
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The message may get to a destination, but no one knows the full path of its journey nor what is in each bottle."īlubster is a friendly application, so it is little wonder that the program has been downloaded 13m times. Pablo Soto, Blubster's developer, has written a proprietary MP2P protocol which he describes as: "If other means of delivering media files could be compared with a postal system with an identifiable sender and receiver, then Blubster's proprietary MP2P network could be likened to throwing a bottled message into the ocean. It has been around for a while, but this new version promises full anonymity to users. Keen to stay ahead, I took a look at some of the RIAA get-arounds.Īt the end of last month, Madrid-based Optisoft, SL released Blubster version 2.5. A born worrier, I was pleased to read that a number of P2P providers have been working assiduously to bring anonymous P2P to the masses. They will probably come after me to set an example to the 100m P2P users outside the US. The RIAA will probably go after the 60m P2P users in its own country before fighting battles in foreign courts.īut I don't feel entirely safe sharing my Charlie Mingus choons with the world when the RIAA is in such a litigious mood. One reason Grokster did not experience a dip may be because its biggest user-base is in London. Other P2P providers experienced only momentary dips in traffic.
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