Megaupload.com seized

Fri Jan 20 11:42:35 UTC 2012

On 20 January 2012 12:14, Alec Muffett <alec.muffett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 20 Jan 2012, at 11:00, Tei wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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:
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>        http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html
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> ...but it's slow; then there's Tahoe-LAFS - a decentralised filesystem:
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>        https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
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> ...but it's slow; then there are connection anonymisation tools like I2P and Tor, but - wonderful as they are - they're slow.
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> Can you see a pattern developing that would be relevant to the downloader of 700Mb+ AVIs? :-)
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> It would be great to speed them through wider adoption, but until then...
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>        -a
>

These services are not needed yet.  But is good that are under study,
in case changes in laws or balance of power make it needed.
For now, I think people will continue using HTTP download/stream
movies and tv series.

Perhaps countries where the 3 strikes legislation is aprobed will make
one of these systems necesary. But I think speed is a important
factor, and no slow system will suceed.

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