Practice Safe P2P Networking

University researchers have completed an initial analysis showing that without using appropriate blacklists of IP addresses, users of P2P (peer to peer) file sharing networks will have their search and sharing habits tracked 100% of the time. Generally, the notion that the music and movie industries have seeded fake files into the P2P mesh to thwart downloads is old news. And while it's also old news that those same industries log the search requests and peer connections, the extent to which a network participant would be ensnared by those traps was not widely known. Of course, the easiest way to avoid trouble is ensuring that downloads are legal and legitimate. The EFF (electronic frontier foundation) has also assembled a basic guide to avoiding legal disputes on file sharing networks. All guides aside, the P2P research definitively concludes, use clients that support blacklists and keep those blacklists updated regularly.

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