[TreasureSeeker]

Originally Posted by BenJones

This is one of the common arguments, and one of the most easily refuted.

First, lets seperate the two claim's you've made. Random companies connecting to you, and people using your bandwidth when you're downloading something.

Ok, first of all, how do you know random companies are connecting to you? Because peerguardian has told you it's stopped a connection from that company. Now, thats not exactly true, is it. PeerGuardian has stopped a connection from an IP, but it doesn't know what company it is, it just has a name associated with it in the list. There's plenty of evidence on the major list makers site, that they often get this wrong. With millions of IPs (and who honestly thinks that even 1% of that list is actively being used) they're going to have lots of errors.

Second point - others using bandwidth when you're downloading. sorry, this is torrents, that argument isn't going to fly. A peer using you bandwidth when you're both on a torrent is normal, and expected. It doesn't matter who some list claims the IP belongs to.

i'll bet, if you investigated, the majority of the blocks even on just bluetack's level1 list don't match the people they alledge. I can also bet that a majority of antip2p IPs are NOT on that same list.

Thanks for the info. I didn't mean bandwidth per se. I assumed the torrent would run more smoothly when there are less simultanious connections? Occasionally I see loads of blocked IPs when i use a public tracker, and while I didn't see any noticable difference I was glad the IPs were blocked, but not because of security.