> mechanism. The sheer quantity of traffic would give it away. So (and this > may seem terribly heretical) wouldn't it seem wise to restrict Freenet to > textual documents only? I'm preparing to be flamed for this, but please, > hear me out for a second:
This is impossible under the current design. Text is, after all, bits just like any other file. You could set a maximum document size like e-mail and news do. This won't stop the publication of binary data, it will just mean an intermediary step of breaking the information into packets. I personally feel that all information should be broken into equal length packets anyway for purposes of steganography and load balancing. But we'll see. Now don't get me wrong, I'd love to stop warez and piracy on Freenet. They are two things which obscure the original point of the project and cause me to find myself in countless tedious discussions about intellectual property law. However, there is simply to way to distinguish encrypted text from encrypted MP3s if the MP3s are broken up into text-sized chunks. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
