> This could be resisted by making certain that the 'real' freenet does not > interoperate with the 'evil' freenet. The people who use the bugged client > out of ignorace would be screwed, but we can't really do anything to protect > the ignorant anyway. The only 2 ways of identifying the good clients are either to know the person running it, or to constanly change the spex of freenet (effectively making the reference imlementation the only working version). I assume the first solution is what you had in mind. 95% of all ppl will be ignorant enough to use the cooler looking client, for that matter I will use it myself too because I live far away from all expensive law-suits. (I honestly dont mind paying for software thats good even if I can get it for free).
And if the minority is small enough, the uploader of copyrighted.zip can be pointed out with a reasonable probability. How can you ever be sure that all clients beyond you friends friends ain't evil? This might lower the number of suspects from 10.000 to 10. --typo _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
