>No, I mean, if we somehow magically limited file formats but included >.zip, people who didn't like the file formats we had picked would just >zip everything up before they inserted it. So we might as well let >them insert whatever they want.
Thats the pont, by including .ZIP files, you aren't restricting anything, but trying to push the system into a certain path, of using a single, versatile format... OK, another thing, I read THIS page... http://www.japaninc.net/mag/comp/2001/04/apr01_p2p_side4.html And after reading it ( especially the 50p music track bit ) I immediaetly thought - Freenet ! Would a Freenet style system not be an EXELLENT p2p network? each node would be a mobile currently connected to the system, Of course, mobiles would have to get A LOT better, with bigger file capacities ( maybe limiting data to .TXT files could be a tempory fix ;> ) But it could treat connected P2P mobiles as clusters of nodes, creating lots of networks in which to communicate... Lets say all P2P mobiles have Frrenet music software, you type in a request for a file, all surrounding nodes are contacted, then they contact surrounding nodes, soon a whole network relays the message, Once it is found, it is copied from node 2 node, till it reaches the user, If not, the phone constantly sends out requests until it is or the user ends the search ( maybe an hour later ). Also, the phones could have seperate "public" memory, ( where relayed data is stored ) But also a Personal store, where information can be marked as publically available or not, but as undeletable, or permanent, Thus, a file will never truly die, unless it is no longer in demand AND people remove it from their own personal stores ( at their own risk, if it then goes extinct )
