By December 2003, it had been downloaded 1 million times. The original PeerGuardian (1.0) was programmed in Visual Basic and quickly became popular among P2P users despite blocking only the common TCP protocol and being known for high RAM and CPU usage when connected to P2P networks. The first public version was released in 2003, at a time when the music industry started to sue individual file sharing users (a change from its previous stance that it would not target consumers with copyright infringement lawsuits). ![]() The Windows version of this program has been discontinued in favor of other applications (Phoenix Labs encourage current PeerGuardian users to migrate to PeerBlock which is based on PeerGuardian 2 ).ĭevelopment on PeerGuardian started in late 2002, led by programmer Tim Leonard. The system is also capable of blocking custom ranges, depending upon user preferences. The aim of its use was to block peers on the same torrent download from any visibility of your own peer connection using IP lists. It is capable of blocking incoming and outgoing connections based on IP blacklists. ![]() ![]() PeerGuardian is a free and open source program developed by Phoenix Labs (software).
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