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Originally posted by oscar
It would seem to me that the balance between total anonymity on a peer network and the ability to get your node learned without some sort of tracking ability by companies and agencies looking to shutdown these networks would be a very difficult task to overcome.
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something to seriously consider all right. as long as adversaries are using the power of the state to search out and persecute individuals who share their property via the internet, it provokes little but danger to trumpet ones' location and identity. if the goal of complete personal anonymity could be assured for a hotlist system then that concern might be muted, but technically this seems a long way off at present.
still, the day may come when the state takes a less draconian view of file sharing and then such a system will have important practical and social values. having a hotlist that carries over from session to session a la napster takes decentralized p2p into a whole new realm.
it’s hard to think tho that if such a system incorporated rewards it wouldn’t be totally dominated by big bandwidth/big content users. i can’t see the average dial uppers with a few dozen files, those that log on for just minutes a day, enjoying much advantage here, and they’re the majority in the networks. but it would sure be nirvana for power users. changes everything.
the goals are too worthwhile to abandon. incorporate the little users and establish anonymity and you've got a system of tremendous benefit.
- js.