The project is still alive, and some of us are on this list. OneSwarm doesn't currently use the approach you suggest (searching the private overlay before falling back to BitTorrent). One could approximate this manually using permissions by first restricting searches to friends and then adding permissions for public BitTorrent sharing if desired.
-Michael On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, David Barrett <dbarr...@quinthar.com>wrote: > I remember hearing about this client a while ago: > > http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/ > > Checking the download page it looks like the project was active as of > August of this year: > > http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/download.html > > Does anyone have experience using this app? I've also CC'd the > developers; are you on this list? > > In particular, I'm curious about its "backwards compatible" support for > BitTorrent. It states that it doesn't anonymize your BT behavior (it, > it's not a Tor replacement). But does it do anything clever like first > search the OneSwarm network of friends for the content, only falling > back to BT if it's not available? > > (At first I was thinking it was an anonymized read-through BT caching > layer but that doesn't seem to be the case.) > > Always curious for new tech and I'm glad to see the project is still alive! > > -david > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >
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