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According to Wikipedia, the developers of Peer Guardian are asking users to migrate to Peer Block. Wouldn't a properly-configured firewall accomplish the same thing?

Relevant info here: http://moblock-deb.sourceforge.net/ If you aren't confident with firewall rules/iptables etc. and networking, you should consider *not* using this! If you connect to the web via a router, you are already protected - usually.

As an alternative to Peer Block, you could try blacklisting outgoing traffic using Firestarter. Here's a page from the Firestarter manual about whitelisting and blacklisting URLs. http://www.fs-security.com/docs/policy-page.php

The GUI makes this very easy (even I can do it, and I don't know squat about iptables).

If it's the RIAA and MPAA you are worried about, I wouldn't place my trust in any preconfigured blacklists. Don't you think these organizations are smart enough to change their IP addresses and domain names daily, if not hourly? If you don't want anyone to see your true IP identity, consider using a proxy server.

If the ISPs are going to police their customers' activities under the constant threat of lawsuits from the RIAA/MPAA, then it won't much matter what you do. Unfortunately, under this scenario everyone will be treated as suspected criminals whether they are sharing pirated videos or MEPIS Live DVDs.

This is a good use of a proxy server system. There are several. Just make sure you don't get one that's supported by the RIAA or MPAA! I'd suggest using encryption if available also.

This sort of thing is the reason I buy the disks.

A trusted proxy server would work for now, as I suggested in an earlier post. But if the ISPs become the police, prosecutor, judge, and jury with the RIAA and MPAA breathing down their necks, you will be terminated if your Internet activity looks like you are sharing files -- any files.