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Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Muffett)
Fri Jan 20 06:15:16 2012
From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACg3zYF=pSYOCRqyYTgsdmUMp04=gJBwaj29GSGZKY4Tt3hN1A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:14:26 +0000
To: Tei <oscar.vives@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 20 Jan 2012, at 11:00, Tei wrote:
> Fileshares can organize thenselves in sites based on a forum software
> that is private by default (open with registration), then share some
> "information" file that include the url to the files hosted, and the
> key to unencrypt these files, and some metadata. A special desktop
> program* would load that information file, and start the http
> download.
At the risk of kicking over old ground, there are a bunch of privacy =
solutions like this; possibly the most complete attempt (in terms of =
attempted privacy and distribution) is Freenet:
http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html
...but it's slow; then there's Tahoe-LAFS - a decentralised filesystem:
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
...but it's slow; then there are connection anonymisation tools like I2P =
and Tor, but - wonderful as they are - they're slow. =20
Can you see a pattern developing that would be relevant to the =
downloader of 700Mb+ AVIs? :-)
It would be great to speed them through wider adoption, but until =
then...
-a
