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Can anyone recommend a replacement for BISS software Block List management service?

They seem to be out of commission.

EDIT: July 8, 2010.

They are back in business.

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BISS is indeed out of comission.

As is PeerGuardian2 and Protowall. I would highly recommend switching to Peerblock if possible (needs to be on a windows box.) Peerblock is a continuation/fork of Peerguardian2.

You would actually add the lists manually to Peerblock. A repository of lists have been created at iBlocklist.

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I have just been informed that with the new, magnetic links, I no longer need a blocklist ability. Do you know if this is true? Thanks. – Xavierjazz Feb 17 '10 at 5:20
magnetic link? as in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme ? If you, yes you still do. The only thing the magnet link does is replace the torrent file. You still connect to whatever peers there are to download the file from. – Devon Feb 17 '10 at 13:08
Hi Devon. Thanks. The information I've been given is that the magnet uses a different method, Information about what the files contain is can no longer be accessed by external snoops. If this is so, what need for block lists? – Xavierjazz Feb 17 '10 at 16:05
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This is actually incorrect. The .torrent file which specifies what files are downloaded, where the trackers are, etc is not what actually gets you caught. Thus, replacing with this with a magnet: uri would not prevent this. What actually gets you caught by anti-p2p organizations is that they log who is in the swarm. Peerblock/PG/etc. block known IP ranges that Anti-P2P organizations own, thus preventing them from connecting to you in the swarm, and then further preventing them from logging your presence in the swarm and notifying your ISP. – Devon Feb 18 '10 at 2:37
Thanks for your knowledge. +1, and I still need to understand more before also accepting your answer. Regards. – Xavierjazz Feb 18 '10 at 6:53
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