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Re: Megaupload.com seized
From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:14:26 +0000
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
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- Re: Megaupload.com seized Robert Bonomi (Jan 20)
- Re: Megaupload.com seized Roland Perry (Jan 20)
- Re: Megaupload.com seized Tei (Jan 20)
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- Re: Megaupload.com seized Tei (Jan 20)
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- Re: Megaupload.com seized Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 20)
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- Re: "Illegal content" (Re: Megaupload.com seized) Marshall Eubanks (Jan 20)
- Re: "Illegal content" (Re: Megaupload.com seized) Robert Bonomi (Jan 20)
- Re: "Illegal content" (Re: Megaupload.com seized) Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 20)
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