All banned Lucas videos are no longer available for new leechers.  What videos are you commenting about?  Please provide links if you have them.

they still are .. because the hidden paramater for ModsOnly category isn't applied to the hompepage top {most wanted} list.

@Hier0nymous:

These films are still live here. I have tried really hard to prevent people from being caught out.

Admins/mods: can you PM everyone currently seeding/leeching and tell them to stop?

this function is not implemented {yet}, sorry. it would be hard to PM every connected user manually. i changed the torrent's title to attract their attention to read comments, but many of them don't seem to worry/care…

Admins/mods: can you PM everyone currently seeding/leeching and tell them to stop?

You should check out TorrentPrivacy.com    I can tell you 100% that PeerGuardian does nothing to stop this current Lucas situation.  His people attached themselves to a torrent, and took screenshots of all the IP addresses that were seeding/downloading.  PeerGuardian doesn't do a think to stop that unless it knows the IP address of Lucas' atty's, which it didn't.   You must have a VPN service which masks your IP address.  If your IP address is visible, you are 100% open to a future lawsuit by some other studio that pulls the same thing.

I know. Therefore I wrote about two points (blocking IP adresses and no downloading new movies)
It's about risk reduction. Also VPN cant give you enough protection, when a man does not think wisely.

A VPN can only protect you if it works over a proxy server (to hide your IP address - btw: GTGuard is also a proxy server) or you have to build a VPN tunnel with every peer to seed/leech a torrent. What sense does that make?

@Hier0nymous:

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If the torrent file is deleted, seeders won't seed once they find out the torrent is deleted,

oups? That is news for me - because seeders DO have that torrent already and seeding such a torrent further does not depend on the torrent's existence on the tracker. If you mean: seeders will voluntarily stop seeding - you might(!) be right - although our experience with lost torrents (after our server crash in January) proves the opposite - there are a lot of missing torrents which are still seeded by some of our members.That is the only reason our efforts to "replace" lost torrent files can be successful.

And another word to proxy servers: you have also to trust the owner of such a server that he does not keep log files. As I am no lawyer I can't tell you if they can be forced to  keep log-files. I still believe the the less "log-capable" points you have in your p2p connections the better for you.

Another security measure on our tracker is the switching off of the scrape activity (for not active torrents). By setting up another tracker (by an anti-p2p company for example) that functionality could permit to get the complete list of swarm-IPs.

@Hier0nymous:

Strykerforce is right: peerguardian does not protect. Vpn, Torrentprivacy (ssh tunnel), GT Guard etc.

I get more and more surprised by such pronouncements. I already pointed out the the protection you can get from such programs depends on their block-lists. AFAIK peerguardian is is not further developed, but the successor PeerBlock seems to be  current - at least the anti-p2p block list is updated on my side every two days and I see more and more IP addresses in their block list - even German lawyers and some German studios are blocked by PeerBlock - so I stay with my recommendation of PeerBlock as a quite useful defense.

If the torrent file is deleted, seeders won't seed once they find out the torrent is deleted, then these films will disappear off the top 30 list. They must all know about this by now, and they do not care about the danger.

Strykerforce is right: peerguardian does not protect. Vpn, Torrentprivacy (ssh tunnel), GT Guard etc.

Let's see these films gone from GTRU, boys.  :spank2:

Thank you for banning Lucas Entertainment productions.

But "Kings of New York" and "Passion" are still showing on the "most wanted torrents" section of the homepage, and the torrents are still downlaodable.  And I was able to find "Missing" too.

The snatch details listing all usernames (including the usernames of so-called anonymous users) of completed downloads are still completely visible to anyone who looks. THis list of completed downloads is a gift to anyone with evil intent, even if IPs are not visible.

Thank you.

This "problem" of the TOP 30 List has been reported directly to our Admins. We Moderators are not able to fix that better then it has been done (by now).

http://www.ovh.co.uk/

Edit:
Peer guardian OS X

http://phoenixlabs.org/pgosx/

Is there a GTRU policy against VPN or Proxy in order to protect from this problem?  If not, will that create problems with multiple IPs logging in if the VPN servers are commercial?

I think, that is enough protection:
1. Do not downloading new movies and
2. using Peerguardian or IPfilter (in Utorrent)
Then you dont need VPN or Proxy.

But "Kings of New York" and "Passion" are still showing on the "most wanted torrents" section of the homepage, and the torrents are still downlaodable.  And I was able to find "Missing" too.

The snatch details listing all usernames (including the usernames of so-called anonymous users) of completed downloads are still completely visible to anyone who looks. THis list of completed downloads is a gift to anyone with evil intent, even if IPs are not visible.

Thank you.

we don't have our own proxy service for members, feel free to use one of the available, or just try other methods of blocking

for VPN services, please care to arrange your own IP address, if possible, to comply with our IP-per-account rule

Is there a GTRU policy against VPN or Proxy in order to protect from this problem?  If not, will that create problems with multiple IPs logging in if the VPN servers are commercial?

We don't allow Proxies, but I have no idea about VPN.  I'll leave that for one of our more tech savvy moderators.