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I hear you, and am sorry to hear of your situation. btw--I don't read your post as flamebait: it's a good question that deserves to be asked.

Here's a few reasons I've come across that indicate blocklistings are a waste of user and developer time.

1. Gnutella is about LEGAL filesharing. It is not built to circumvent the law, even if some users primarily think of it that way. Secure and private networks are "expensive" in bandwidth and thus attract too few users for general p2p use.

2. Blocklists "seem" to work, but really don't. They just give the user a false sense of security on an open network.

3. Blocklists are based on static IP's; the hunters can use dynamic IP's that change daily.

I'm sure the experts have better reasons why such a popular request has yet to be significantly implemented on a wide scale.

Anyway--there's lots of good legitimate content that deserves to be shared, so use LW to collect and help share that stuff. If you do happen to download some files that turn out to contain infringing content, don't share it back.


cheers--and sincerely--best wishes.