> > Oh really? So the Chinese government discovers that I am running a
> > Freenet node. What do they do? They might be able to shut down a node if
> > they happened to be fishing and catch an IP address within China, however
> > the vast majority of Freenet nodes will not be within China meaning that
> > even if they shut-down *every* Chinese Freenet node they would have no
> > significant effect on the network - meaning that there is little point in
> > them even trying.
> Your ISP will *normally* kick you off if they get a complaint. Only spineful
A complaint meaning a cease and desist letter, they ignore *people*
complaining.
> ISPs like Demon would even try in the past, and Demon a) wouldn't resist
> anyone now and b) doesn't provide cable/ADSL. ADSL can't run freenet anyhow
Oops. They do provide ADSL. Anyway the below is alleged, and certainly true
on many countries' monopoly or half-monopoly high bandwidth services.
> as they use NAT on many services; Cable should be able to, but it is against
> the AUP. So when I get a cable modem, I won't be able to run a freenet node.
It is also against the ADSL AUP. Most high bandwidth AUPs have a blanket ban
on publicly accessible servers too. Most people on this list are running
freenet in violation of their AUPs I'll wager. Even closed-list clusters
would probably violate AUPs, but they would not be found by the RIAA,
therefore they would be ignored (assuming bandwidth throttled enough to be
ignored).
> Having cable modem internet access most likely matters much more to most
> people than running a freenet node.
> >
> > > Except if you can't tie a user to an IP address, of course, but you can in
> > > many schemes. For instance if you keep logs of your DHCP transactions then
> > > it's not a big deal, even on cable.
> >
> > Er, bypassing DHCP is a very easy measure to take if this is your concern.
> And illegal.
> >
> > Ian.
My apologies for selfreplying. I wouldn't want to slander Demon :)
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