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List:       inet-access
Subject:    ip3000 blocking
From:       "John Foltz" <lists () usefulware ! com>
Date:       2001-01-31 16:41:14
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A while back there was a great deal of discussion about the nuisance of the 
IP3000 indexing
of web sites.  They hit you several hundred times per day and download all 
the images
from your site, ostensibly to create an image database but that is 
bogus.  They have been
saying that on their sites for a year, that this searchable database is 
coming.  They never respond to anyone's
inquiries about their activities.  Their real purpose seems to be
to snoop for alleged copyright infringements and then sell this information 
to the supposed owners.
Regardless its just a drain on your site, as you can see from your web 
logs.  There have also been
reports of denial-of-service attacks originating from them.

At any rate, a few months ago when everyone was blocking them their address 
range was one
thing, but evidently they are moving around to circumvent this (or being 
kicked off one ISP to get another)
The current addresses to be blocked based on my research are
216.200.195.53 to .62    and    208.185.131.199 to .222
they go by various domains now and you can see their stories on those 
sites.  Some of their
new domains 
are  davesengine.com  petersnews.com  bitshark.com  agentm.com  imagelock.com
and brandata.com and the ip3000 domain is now obsolete.  This seems part of 
their evasive stealth action.

I have copied all their listed contact addresses on this email as 
well.  Maybe they'd like to respond to the list.




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