[tor-talk] Bittorrent starting to move entirely within anonymous overlay nets

[Steve Kinney]

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On 06/09/2016 12:33 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> On 6/9/16, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The problem is getting the software in the first place. Popcorn
>> Time #1 got bullied off the web, then sprouted two forks, neither
>> of which could keep a stable url. So you better not have a single
>> hitch in your web server. Otherwise that will be the first thing
>> to go, and you'll end up wasting the rest of your development
>> time playing cat-and-mouse across dns, onion addys, etc.
> 
> You missing greater part of the subject and context... Competent
> services and users can't be bullied off of anonymous overlay
> networks by anyone except perhaps GPA's that have nothing better to
> do. Clearnet is a joke compared to that general caveat. Which is
> why bittorrent is moving into the overlays... yes, they're tired of
> wasting their time with bullies and they have better things to do, 
> including building and using stable, resistant, systems. That's
> just ops, is not giving up, but continuing to better advancing any
> of their philosophical ideas on piratepartiet, privacy, etc.

Beauty part:  With great user base comes great anonymity sets and
routing node counts, hence less responsibility.  Considering who we
are asked to be responsible to, and what they do with that supposed
authoritah, win.






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