Blocked from getting file?

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There's a specific file I want and I seem to be being systematically blocked from getting it. I found two slightly different versions of the file, one with a single ed2k source and one with four.

Both spend most of their time pending, not queued. When one queues, its queue position drops slowly but steadily, but as soon as it gets below about 100 something intervenes to prevent further advancement. The source drops me from its queue and goes inactive, and if I check with Filter/All Sources it shows a 30 minute countdown.

I want to know, immediately, how to work around this. Obviously someone or something is systematically acting against my receiving this particular file. I'm trying to get it and at least 5 people are willing to share it with me, but someone is interposing himself in between us, somehow.

From what I understand of how ed2k works, this is not possible unless my machine is compromised (it's not), all the sources have been compromised (all five? Doubtful), or the ed2k servers I'm connecting to are all compromised (also doubtful).

I'm presuming there is another, less obvious way to interfere with the ed2k availability of a specific file. I want to know what thay way is and, especially, how to defend my computer against it. As far as I am concerned this constitutes an attack on my private property rights, particularly, the right to do whatever I want to with my personally-owned computing hardware and in particular to contact any other computer and exchange any data with it where this is mutually agreeable with the owner of that hardware.

Connection test passes, other files (including ed2k files) download without trouble, everything else works. It's only copies of one single specific file that are affected -- but all copies, even somewhat different versions, on all sources, systematically, so this is no accident or happenstance, and this has been going on for days now.

The file is NOT a high profile song, album, or movie, so it's not the RIAA, MPAA, MediaDefender, or any of their ilk deliberately sabotaging things. On the other hand the abuse is systematic so it is *some* person sabotaging things, in all likelihood. But it won't be any organization with the resources to have created five fake sources or otherwise pollute the network on a large scale. The sources are genuine (and I've even gotten other, related files from some of them), but something is interposing itself between my machine and all of the five sources and acting to suppress transfers of the one specific file.

I want to know, within 24 hours, how to prevent that interposition from occurring and thereby download the file with no more trouble or difficulty than the others I've already received from the same sources.

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