There are many IP addresses that are scanning, and spoofing the file sharing networks, a look at how some programs such as peerguardian can help you out, and keep the RIAA going in circles. They want to see what you share, and put tons of fake files up. Files that are named correctly, have a good filesize, and wind up being thirteen minutes of 32k static in MP3.
Now, as for the scanning. They can see what you're sharing, right? Even if you use eMule, where people can't see what you share, and have to goto a forum to get links to your files so they can start a download, which helps a lot, they can still see the IPs(yet it is quite harder, since the client search feature won't work if they can't see your files).
Would you want to wind up like the Verizon guy? Do you want to be on evil's hitlist?
Well, there are ways to block these IP addresses, of the RIAA, Overpeer, mediadefender, and all of the people that are trying to find file-sharers to prosecute, and all of the people spreading fake files, and all the people that will fill your upload queue with 0.1K downloads, just so you can't share.
We'll start with PeerGuardian.
"This one, isn't exactly as good. The IP ranges, are too wide(it says so on its page, and it's only an alpha), so it'll block much more than the bad IPs, it'll block the good ones too. buy.com, won't even work while this is running.
Also, the program, only checks every 400 ms(milliseconds) to see if there's anything to block, so the RIAA could've been in and out of your system, and PeerGuardian, won't even have seen it. The version, that blocks every 100ms, isn't up, and hasn't been for some time.
A better solution would be putting the IP addresses in a firewall, since there would be no connection to block, unlike peerguardian which will block a connection that has already been made.
The IP addresses to block can be found here. The IP addresses, are updatede every few days, unlike peerguardian, which hasn't been updated in months. You have many ways of dealing with these IP addresses on their site.
Here are the instructions if you don't want to do any work, and you want to just grab a firewall and download a file for the firewall, and have everything be blocked. These are the instructions for Sygate Personal Firewall, which is the only firewall where it can be done automatically; since the "rules" on what IPs to block, don't have to be put in manually; you can just download the rule file off the site, point sygate to it, and all the IPs to block will be put in the advanced rules. Here's how to do that;"
This >http://koti.mbnet.fi/zerodata/
Updated block list there. There's a text file, and a .dat file. The text file is to add them manually, it's a list of the IPs. They are the IP addresses of the scanners of the P2P network, new ones, PeerGuardian's were too big a range, and outdated. These are improved, please don't ask me about them, I don't know about all of them, and don't ask why ontario government and FBI are in there, it's all on the site.
The .dat file is a list of advanced rules to be imported into Sygate Personal Firewall. All you have to do is tell sygate to import the rules, from the .dat file, and it's all blocked for you!
Here's how to use the .dat file in Sygate Personal Firewall, step by step, I did it.
1) Download and install Sygate Personal Firewall PRO(30 day trial), and open the firewall.
2) Goto tools, advanced rules.
3) Right click on the white area in the window, where the rules would be, and hit import rules or something like that.
4) Point it to the .dat file available for download on that site.
5) See that all the rules are there.
6) Download the free Sygate Personal Firewall.
7) Install it, and say that you want to update the old one, and keep all the settings from the previous one.
The free one doesn't let you import advanced rules from the .dat file, so you need to install the pro to do that. Then you install the free one, telling it to keep the settings from the pro one, so you can still have the advanced rules from the .dat file, and not need to buy it when the trial runs out.
Sygate Personal Firewall, (free)
Sygate Personal Firewall PRO, (trial)
The next solution, would be to put the list of bad IP addresses from here, http://www.zbl.ieplugins.com, and put them in PeerGuardian, or some other firewall.
That's all there is to it.