Andrew Kantor's Place: Damn Lithuanians at it again

Damn Lithuanians at it again

Published 2/28/08

When I download stuff I figure it’s no one’s business but mine, so I use a neat program called PeerGuardian — it essentially tracks certain organizations that like to spy on you and blocks them from doing so.

Today I peeked at the list of what it had blocked in the past few minutes:

(Click to enlarge.)

Why does the office of the president of Lithuania care what I’m downloading? I’m open to suggestions.

(Moviex, by the way, is a company that tries to prevent people from pirating movies. Evidently it’s also interested in more than just that. I happened to be getting a game demo.)

The Fray

One response so far (add yours)

Randy says:

I’ve been using PeerGuardian for a while, too. I noticed when downloading a Linux distro just after I installed PeerGuardian that I was getting a ton of blocked connection attempts from Disney. WTF?!? Clearly they are watching everything they can think to on P2P networks, rather than sticking to watching for stuff that shouldn’t be on the networks.

February 29th, 2008 at 9:40 AM

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