DeMoN LaG wrote: > yatsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > a58vc9$1cr4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:a58vc9$1cr4$[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 23 Feb 2002: > >> OTOH, with more advanced P2P networks in the future it would be >> possible to define a filetype containing metadata and a hash which >> would open a P2P client (aka 'Start' -> 'Search' -> 'Search files' >> in Windows 2005) which'll find all files with the valid metadata >> and'll verify the hash on the found files eventually resulting in >> single result that can be downloaded from several locations >> (simultaniously :)) > > I wouldn't mind if someone could decide *on their site* that they wanted > you to search a P2P network.
Hence the hash, inorder to assure the found content is that the author wanted it to be. > Maybe like a link to: > p2p://images?"Girl_and_dog.jpg" > or something, and that would open your predefined P2P client and search > it's "images" section for "Girl_and_dog.jpg", but having Mozilla itself > search P2P networks is asking for trouble. What happens when the RIAA > wants to shut down Mozilla for helping copyright infringements? That's > no good. > Not what i was suggesting in this post, but.. By providing a search mechanism which utilizes an _external_ P2P client? -yatsu
