On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 03:16:45PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
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> Hardly. If you wed it to the Freenet network itself, you: 1) contribute to
> making it impossible for anyone but us to implement a Freenet node, and 2)
> make it impossible for someone to leave their Freenet node running if
> ordered to shut down their "Freesearch" node.
>
> In fact I think that if you tie this into Freenet itself you are directly
> undermining one of the project's goals: plausible deniability. "But I
> didn't know my node was holding metadata information on those copyrighted
> mp3s." "Whaddya mean, it's right here in plain text"
Another reason for seperation is that you could make the resulting URIs
protocol independant, to work for people who want to share files directly
(ftp or http) as well as via Freenet. (For example one could already hack
a gnutella servlet that works from a keyindex (I think).)
I think that the difference between searching for data reference based on
an idea, and finding actual data based on a reference, are sufficiently
different that they should be in seperate layers. Either way, I have been
thinking for a while that we should at least experiment about this by
making it a seperate application for Napster/Gnutella type filesharing.
Trying to simulate searching is pointless, so the best way would be to
experiment on a platform that could be useful but without polluting the
more "serious" codebase.
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