> The DMCA provides intimidation, even in foreign countries. Disconnection
> would normally be on grounds of "you weren't allowed to run servers in our
> AUP which you were supposed to have read". ALL UK broadband ISPs, and the
> vast majority across the globe, have AUPs which say "no servers". This can
> ideally be changed by pressure from consumers, but such pressure will not
> happen without a lot of people wanting to run freenet, which depends on a
> working freenet, which depends on lots of people running it illegally.
> Shadow nodes would also be illegal, but harder to detect so less
> successfully persecuted.
Well, for what it is worth, in my other life, I have spoken to some of
the top people in a *very* large ISP's broadband division, and the strong
impression I get from them is that if their users want P2P, they will
bend-over-backwards to give it to them. They have already begun to
investigate how to make such a thing easier. Also, recall that companies
like Intel, which have a strong vested interest in P2P, will apply strong
pressure against any effort to curtail it.
Ian.
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