We've had to take a different approach for our LAN events and block big brother from monitoring us, via peerblock, http://www.peerblock.com/
this would require more hardware in the wrong places, another suggestion would be to use a VPN system meant for pirating, https://www.ipredator.se/ uTorrent and most of the torrent clients look for open ports,and even will operate via 80/8080 nowadays, as you suspect. data caps might be a way to go as well, after xxxMbs they then get a speed cap similar to dial up. this will deter the people pirating, but still can be traced. here is my current deployment I manage via open-mesh FW on engenius AP's http://www.cloudtrax.com/overview2.php?id=riverdalepropertywifi On Jan 23, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Drew wrote: > Just for discussion sake. > We are getting a few notices here and there from ISPs about copyrighted > material downloads. Not too many, but more than we used to. > Some of the connection owners are asking about their liability issues. I > really hate to even broach this subject since blocking ports on > SoCalFreeNet.Org, minus email spam, has been something we have always fought. > So the question is, can you effectively block P2P traffic anyways? Some > torrent clients seem to be pretty effective at shifting ports. > Thoughts? > Drew > _______________________________________________ > SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List > To unsubscribe, please visit: > http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org _______________________________________________ SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List To unsubscribe, please visit: http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org
