PeerGuardian has become one of the more essential tools of the file-sharing trade. Considering the ferocity of the RIAA’s campaign against the P2P world, the community has been quick to counter this strike. PeerGuardian has stepped up to the challenge by providing software that blocks known IP addresses, typically from the RIAA and its minions, from scanning your shared directory. We would like to thank PeerGuardian for their time and efforts, and Bullet for conducting and contributing this interview to Slyck.com
Bullet: Speak briefly about the origins of Peerguardian.net and it’s current state.
RIPper24: PeerGuardian.net was born from the need [to] have a unique portal to solve PeerGuardian application problems.
“Eremini” originally conceived the idea and founded the site. The forums at Methlabs, while very useful, were not providing all the answers that we were looking for, so these forums were born. However Peerguardian.net has become more than just a support tool for the PeerGuardian application. We have grown in size and improved the content, we have created Firewall support forums, International support forums, and we have also created a news team which cover most of the P2P related news around the globe.
One of our biggest assets is the PGIPDB (PeerGuardian IP Database) where we have concentrated almost the 80 % of the resources with the invaluable help of Seraphiel who works on the maintenance of the Database, also “DingDongDing” aka “ddd”, and “Bluetack”, who is the Owner of the site and Administrator.
“Bluetack” has created the Block List Manager, which now interacts with the PGIPDB his help, commitment effort and patience is what really has us only on this day. His dedication is invaluable. The continuous effort to improve our site is what we all have to look to for an example.
Bullet: Is there a limit to the number of IP ranges that can be blocked?
Bluetack: The amount of IP ranges that are specifically anti-P2P is finite, so the scope of PeerGuardian as an anti-P2P blocklist is also finite. However, there are plans to generate other lists that cover other types of blocklist such as Government & Military, Hacker, Spammer, Spyware and so on.
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