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
