On 20 Jan 2012, at 11:00, Tei wrote:
> Fileshares can organize thenselves in sites based on a forum software
> that is private by default (open with registration), then share some
> "information" file that include the url to the files hosted, and the
> key to unencrypt these files, and some metadata. A special desktop
> program* would load that information file, and start the http
> download.
At the risk of kicking over old ground, there are a bunch of privacy solutions
like this; possibly the most complete attempt (in terms of attempted privacy
and distribution) is Freenet:
http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html
...but it's slow; then there's Tahoe-LAFS - a decentralised filesystem:
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
...but it's slow; then there are connection anonymisation tools like I2P and
Tor, but - wonderful as they are - they're slow.
Can you see a pattern developing that would be relevant to the downloader of
700Mb+ AVIs? :-)
It would be great to speed them through wider adoption, but until then...
-a
