If you had a thousand hours of genius programmer time, would you spend it embracing and extending Bittorrent, or shoveling through the indecipherable bowels of legacy Mnet and Freenet code?
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 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 earlier.
Steve
