[148787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Taylor)
Sun Jan 22 22:07:09 2012
From: Jacob Taylor <orangewinds@gmail.com>
To: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:05:47 -0800
In-Reply-To: <CD20CE46-3667-4DF5-9311-9FCAE54B38F6@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 11:14 +0000, Alec Muffett wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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
Tahoe-lafs can be fast. A grid I help out with is often capable of
600kilobyte/per/second downloads (or faster), and I personally have
several files stored on there in excess of 500mb. Close enough to your
700mb movie example.
I use this storage as a CDN of sorts, as a friend wrote an HTTP
interface to the Tahoe-lafs grid.
Should you wish to see it in action, the code and download links are
over here --> http://cryto.net/projects/tahoe.html
