Mar 6 2006

Peerguardian blocks uTorrent.com

  • Written by Jorge
  • 8 Comments

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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  1. kokanezub

    new shit on zp! new style new loook and the threads r currently down

  2. Jorge

    welcome to the improved news system.

  3. kokanezub

    very nice look i must say very sexy

  4. Jorge

    Thanks the site is still fighting the change.

  5. Christoph

    PG is made by Kids!Why blocking utorrent.comwhat does it help?

  6. Julian

    Isn’t PG owned by a bunch of Visual Basic programmers? Correct me if I am wrong… :/

  7. thongsai

    lol they blocked a legitamate usenet server once.. pg is for newbs who like sticking their heads in the sand

  8. evilmegaman

    wow that’s pretty pathetic. I still use utorrent cuz it’s awesome ;)

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