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Originally posted by alphabeater
... unless the network is built on a trust layer - encrypted communications as you say, accompanied by users building their own networks of friends (and friends of friends, etc.) instead of having them automatically built for them by the p2p program. this would make it far easier to remove unwanted peers or files from the network quickly.
in my opinion, the future of p2p doesn't lie in huge, global networks, but in smaller, more personal ones made up of friends and interconnected at certain points.
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I agree 100 %.
You are describing features of socially intelligent p2p topology, and I firmly believe that something like it will soon be implemented on decentralized p2p. Once available, group and community tools will make the whole decentralized scene so much more interesting and exciting! There will always be a place for a global and open sharing layer but groups and communities with their internal activities and their mutual interactions will take the game of p2p to a whole new level.
- tg
