[p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko at zooko.com)

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:06:45PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote:

> I worked with Bram and Zooko at Mojo Nation (where both BT and Mnet got
> their respective genesis) and was frankly surprised when the MPAA was so
> easily able to target and put out of commission BT's trackers.  The

Why? BT is designed with zero privacy in mind.

> 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.

> earlier.


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