http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gydb6/viral_survival_a_p2p_strategy_to_beat_the_freenet/
Some guy is trying to coin a new term "The Freenet Effect", to describe when content falls out of a P2P network. Amusingly he claims that this is a "well known" phenomenon, yet the only reference to it in Google (in the sense he means it) is his own article. His "solution" is that peers basically keep data in the network by verifying that at least 5 other peers are hosting any data they are hosting. He evidently doesn't realize that in any network with finite storage, where anyone can add to that storage, there must be a way to "cull" data, or your system will rapidly fill up. In effect he has implemented a self-DoSing protocol, and he is extremely proud of it. Reddit is in "emergency read-only mode" as I write this, but already a few people have pointed out these and other problems. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: ian at freenetproject.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110427/18e6d3f6/attachment.html>
