On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:48:12PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
Why? BT is designed with zero privacy in mind.
And this was a profound error, IMHO. One of the epiphanies from my work at
It was a deliberate decision on Bram Cohen's part. BT is a very useful medium to deliver software updates, movies und most for what there are currently broadcast media for. If you want to be invisible to lawyers, you have to use something else. (Or at least run BT on a large zombie cloud, so you have plausible deniability).
MN was that a secrecy-oriented proxy network development and successful deployment needed to precede P2P file sharing if such networks were to survive determined technical and legal challenges. End users often care
If a network has been declared illegal, and you're a part of that network, and somebody receives packets from you which are part of IP-protected binary blob, and your ISP rats on you, your ass is grass with the right kind of IP nazi legislation. Obvously, the only way to prevent that from happening is not be part of that network, not make your ISP rat on you -- or, much better, do not let that legislation happen at all. If it does happen, freedom becomes illegal.
little about what 'under the hood' of their P2P app only that they can get the content conveniently and they are not subjected to annoyances like spy or adware.
exposure of the trackers was a prominent topic of MN planning discussions and its odd that precautions, like distributing the tracker functions into clients or hiding them inside a TOR-like proxy network weren't taken
You can post BT links on a P2P network.
But trackers must still be widely accessible by the general population of BT users and can you offer the content or obtain it without likely identification?
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