Yowzies! /me goes back to Azureus with a Blocklist enabled...
On Dec 7, 2007 4:38 PM, Amit Varma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.itpiraten.com/captainsblog.htm#uTorrent > > As you may or may not know, uTorrent, the popular torrent client, have > > joined forces with Time Warner. There are already lots of trackers out there > > that have banned uTorrent 1.7 (even 1.6.1 is being banned) because it's > > sending information to Time Warner Telecom and Peer 1 Network Inc. > > > > It will continue to be banned on most trackers even though uTorrent claim > > to have fixed the "issue" in version 1.7.1. But this is something that > > most people don't think. During a test using locked firewalls it showed that > > uTorrent tries to send information to 64.124.145.113, 64.124.145.104, > > 206.169.225.92, 64.34.174.141, 64.34.172.152, 206.169.170.246 and > > 206.169.230.102. > > > > and here are the whois/trace: > > http://whois.domaintools.com/64.124.145.113 Abovenet Communications, Inc > > http://whois.domaintools.com/64.124.145.104 Abovenet Communications, Inc > > http://whois.domaintools.com/206.169.225.92 Time Warner Telecom, Inc. > > http://whois.domaintools.com/64.34.174.141 Peer 1 Network Inc. > > http://whois.domaintools.com/64.34.172.152 Peer 1 Network Inc. > > http://whois.domaintools.com/206.169.170.246 Time Warner Telecom, Inc. > > http://whois.domaintools.com/206.169.230.102 Time Warner Telecom, Inc. > > > > Go figure. It's however still uncertain what information is sent to Time > > Warner and the bunch at this time. We can all agree on that it's not good > > when a torrent client start to contact companies that are 100% against file > > share and claim to make billion dollar losses because of it. > > > > > -- > Amit Varma > http://www.indiauncut.com >
