Help evading blanket ED2K ban

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I don't know how or why, but sometime in the last hour or so the address range my ISP uses has been blanket banned by most (all?) ED2K servers. All traffic from any IP I can obtain (and I've just tried a random three) to any of the eMule Security #foo servers seems to be blackholed as of mere minutes ago. Everything else (G1, G2, DC++) works when told to connect, but any outbound connect to any of those affiliated ED2K servers just does nothing and eventually times out, and this state of affairs survives multiple restarts of modem, router, Shareaza, etc., so clearly the problem exists at the other end of the connections.

I can only assume that someone else at my ISP was behaving badly, because I didn't do anything wrong or even anything weird, strange, or unusual.

Since I am not therefore the legitimate target of the ban, but merely collateral damage, I don't see that there should be any ethical qualms about evading it somehow.

Does anyone here know how I might go about doing that? I don't suppose there's a way to make Shareaza's ED2K traffic, and preferably only its ED2K traffic, tunnel through a proxy of some sort? Or that there's a free such proxy I could avail myself of? The solution has to be something I can implement quickly (say, no more than ten minutes of fiddling with stuff at my end, and preferably just a few clicks and typing some stuff into Shareaza's Advanced Settings window) and it cannot cost so much as one penny or require any kind of credit cards, phone verification, or other such garbage.

I need to be able to fix this now, or at least, fairly soon, as I have other things I need to be doing and I can't be spending too long waiting to have Shareaza back the way it should be, up and running quietly in the background downloading files. A task that should have only taken me two minutes, but no thanks to this stupid overbroad collateral-damage-causing ban aimed at somebody else, has now already taken me over 15, despite my not having done anything to deserve this delay.

Oh, and incidentally, I want to be able to completely prevent anything like this from ever happening to me again. To reiterate, I did nothing to deserve it, and it's causing quite some delay and inconvenience nonetheless, delay and inconvenience that should properly have been visited on whoever it was that actually did something wrong. In the future I demand the ability to deflect all such things onto the parties actually responsible, and to never be affected negatively by anything for which I am not ultimately to blame. How do I arrange that? How to I shield not only my own computer, but all those it communicates with, from the malign influences of ... well, whoever might have triggered this whole thing? Note that I am not asking to be unaccountable for my own actions. Only to be unaffected by anyone else's, except where expressly permitted by me or as a direct and foreseeable consequence of my own conduct towards them. Nobody should be causing me inconvenience and delay if I didn't do something to wrong them first, and indeed nobody should even have the capability to do so, absent such prior wrongdoing on my part. That somebody evidently does is a bug, not a feature (though not a bug specifically in Shareaza). Locks on doors, firewalls, and the rule of law are supposed to be mankind's patch on that particular bug, but it seems to be curiously ineffective in the specific case that it's me that needs to be protected from such things. So I need greater recourse to self-help when attacked without provocation. I need greater ability to evade, circumvent, or remain beneath the radar of the huge feet that seem often to go stomping around heedless of what innocents might happen to be in their way, if I am to achieve my goal of being able to do my own thing, harmlessly, and mind my own business in peace, and be left alone instead of constantly suffering interference from other people that are either being jerks or just not watching where they're stepping on their way to something else...

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Buy a VPN.

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