Peerguardian blocks uTorrent.com

**Jorge** · March 8th, 2006, 12:00 PM

Biggest news in the past few days in the p2p world is the Retspan story. Lots of inaccuracies and condemnations of Ludvig Strigeus (aka ludde) over his deal with peerfactor, subsidiary of Retspan, an anti-p2p association. Some claim its the end of the world, that the client will serve Retspan directly, and through the licensing of a single DLL file, ludde is permanently tainted as a traitor to p2p.

To this end, the current version of PG2+blocklist will block attempts to even visit the µtorrent website. The block gives the message "utorrent.com works for anti-p2p RetSpan". Mr. Strigeus described the block as 'ridiculous' and called for it to be removed. One of the admins at PG2, gong by the name "phrosty" blamed it on BlueTack, provider of their blocklist.

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**kokanezub** · March 8th, 2006, 05:59 PM

isnt utorrent making a deal with peerfactor to charge for p2p?

**kokanezub** · March 8th, 2006, 06:00 PM

also this issue was said on the forum like 3 days ago as someone reported that pg was blocking websites. personally i let pg allow all websites as it blocks google yahoo and other usfull sites

**serrebi101** · March 9th, 2006, 08:47 PM

no... lud made a deal with peerfactor to give them a dll with the bit torrent proticall in it, something they could gotten from any open source prog, but went with Utorrent for the low footprint. No... nothings happening with Utorrent, it's a side project, and it's sad that it's just immature radicals who hate that lud is actually making money.
retspan or however you spell it is not involved.