Fighting Absurdity With Absurdity:
THIS SITE AND ALL CONTENT THEREIN IS ENTIRELY PERSONAL IN NATURE; THEREFORE THE OPINIONS, COMMENTS, BELIEFS, ET CETERA THEREIN MAY NOT BE CONSTRUED AS BEING THAT OR ENDORSED BY ANY EMPLOYER OF MINE, PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE, THOR, MARS, THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER, OR THAT BUM WHO JUST BILKED YOU OUT OF A CIGARETTE. BY THE WAY, THAT DUDE MAKES MORE PANHANDLING THAN YOU DO AT YOUR OFFICE JOB.
Why is it that pirates can manage to distribute working copies, but companies offering digital download services can’t?
Mikrotik/RouterOS and P2P Blocking
Mikrotik allows one to very easily block the vast majority of P2P traffic on a network. What you want is something like this:
/ip firewall filter add chain=forward p2p=bit-torrent action=drop
Or, for those of you using WinBox:
- Navigate to IP > Firewall
- Click on the big red plus
- General > Chain: forward
- General > P2P: all-p2p
- Action > Action: drop
Credit goes to Atari – without their terribly broken digital download service, I would’ve never been forced to accidentally test this rule. :p
Note: Still working out comments/etc. theming. Please ignore the ugliness.