I have no idea how to convince you but I'll give it a go. I've been producing my own training videos for years. They are big files. It's video. I can load them to all manner of high availability services in the US but the links from Indonesia to these services won't help very much because those links are so slow. I want them to be shared, to be available, and to provide the tool that allows people to access the video.
Most of these are screencasts showing people how to do things with software, like configure it, write html/css, stuff like that. They might only be 40-150mb, but this is far too much when we are talking about 100s of them over and over each day as part of an education program. Next time you threaten to ban someone I hope you give a little more information about what you are looking for. Pretty nerve-wracking threat. -- Alex werk: http://commoning.net me: http://alexrollin.com mob: +31 (0) 6 31 56 96 88 ?It?s no longer possible for a country to collapse in isolation. Now we all collapse. ?The only path to stability is to equalize the consumption rates of the first and developing world. Our dream is no longer possible in the new world.? - Jared Diamond On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Daxter <xovatdev at gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 15, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: >> On Thursday 13 January 2011 19:36:57 Daxter wrote: >>> I have a few questions concerning this set-up that I hope you all can help >>> answer. >>> >>> 1.What operating systems support guest accounts, which give temporary, >>> limited access to a computer (and delete the user afterwards)? What might >>> be the best one to run for always-on cafe computers? >>> >>> 2. Wouldn't it be best for the ISP-connecting nodes to change "Relay >>> opennet noderefs through darknet peers?" to false? Users of the cafe >>> wireless would have no access to the internet, so they would be uselessly >>> sending out opennet connection requests. At the same time, there's a chance >>> that the ISP-connecting nodes (assuming there are more than 1) might >>> connect to each other via their ISP connection, thus pointlessly wasting >>> bandwidth. >>> >>> 3. What dangers would their be to setting "Write local and nearby requests >>> to the datastore?" to true on nodes not connected to the internet (both >>> cafe and personal computers in the community)? There would be an obvious >>> speed increase with the setting set to true, so I wanted to fully >>> understand the dangers for this kind of set-up. >>> >>> 4. Is there any way to prevent guest users of cafe machines from changing >>> Freenet preferences? >>> >>> 5. How could one set up a wifi extension that doesn't disrupt the LAN >>> IP-address distribution (two users with 10.0.1.6)? >>> >>> 6. Are there any potential legal allegations for hosting file refs on a >>> local website that loads automatically when connected to an unsecured wifi >>> network (let's assume that some of the training videos shared have >>> copyrights)? >> >> I will keep on saying this for as long as people don't get the message: >> >> I was going to give a detailed answer to your fascinating posts, but we >> cannot support anyone whom we have reasonable grounds to believe is using >> Freenet for copyright infringement or is likely to do so, as per Grokster vs >> MGM, and as per the EFF's legal advice to p2p devs. >> >> Convince me that you're not going to use Freenet to violate US/UK copyright >> law or I will ban you from the Freenet mailing lists. > > Note taken. Instead of attempting to help users find ways around copyright > law we/I should leave such issues up to those who are asking for help, while > all the while explain that the best solution is to not "steal" videos (or any > other media), but to create them. > > I've been reading these mailing lists for about 6 months now, and I don't > recall copyright infringement coming up during that time. Either way, I'll do > my best to better remember that Freenet is more about sharing knowledge that > needs to be shared than it is about skirting the law. > > Back to the original topic, please do give us your insight on this intriguing > challenge. I only have a conceptual understanding of Freenet, not a technical > one, but it had been a week since Alex first started this thread and yet no > one had replied so I thought it important to help in whatever ways I could. > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
