I mean, I don’t even use my DirecTV much anymore, so I’m prob gonna drop it. Now, don’t get pissed at me, I am not an employee of, & have no equity in, but have come to rely upon Netflix. Why risk legal action when the answer is so cheap and easy?, he said. Several months ago a friend asked me exactly why I was downloading AVI files? Duh? i said… You’re an idiot, he said. I have been using PG2 for a long time, not knowing if it really does anything.
This paper also notes that interestingly only a few of the IPs belong to media companies… most are commercial/government/BOGON. Using such software can help users reduce their chances of being monitored to 1% (rather than 100%). Being careful and adding a program that can peerblock can have a large effect: we encountered the top 5 blocklisted IPs 95% of the time when without PB. 12%-17% of IPs a person w/o peerblock connects to are listed in some blocklist. In simpler words: Person without peerblock is guaranteed to run into an IP that has been blocklisted. This information can help users to reduce their chances of being Interestingly, a little caution can have a signifi cant e ffect: the top five most prevalent blocklisted IPs contribute to nearly 94% of all blocklisted entities we ran into.
In fact, 12% to 17% of all distinct IPs contacted by a peer are blocklisted ranges. “A naive user is practically guaranteed to be monitored: we observe that 100% of our peers run into blocklisted users.
