Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet - The Next Generation : Fuzzy Searching

[Ian Clarke]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 03:10:01PM -0700, coderman wrote:
> Who would be responsible for the unrequest? 

The requestor (the clients should be designed to make this easy, or
automatic in some circumstances).  Crypto would ensure that you can only
unrequest your own requests.

> Could this be used to censor certain key data?  Lets say the MPAA decides 
> to search freenet for 'DeCSS' and then issue unrequests
> for all the results which it finds.  Could they do this?

Sure, but it wouldn't have any detrimental effect on the number of
copies of DeCSS out there since they will only be unrequesting their own
requests.

Ian.

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