[freenet-chat] Re: the plutocratic world of freenet

2005-08-27 Thread daniele
The most convicting truth about my error in considering freenet a plutocratic network was given to me by private mail, as follow: [...] > The key here is _distribution_ over > the wide geographic area, which is simple for "regular" users, but > requires a very costly and difficult to manage conc

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: Freenet mention on BBC Radio 1 tommorow?

2005-08-27 Thread Ian Clarke
No, my interview was for "Click Online", and won't go out for around 2 weeks. Ian. On 26 Aug 2005, at 20:18, Bob wrote: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hmm, sorry maybe it wasn't today after all (although it sounded like it was). There was a brief 'Internet issues' piece at 6:00pm again

Re: [freenet-chat] Re: the plutocratic world of freenet

2005-08-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:32:55PM +0200, daniele wrote: > That would be true if there where only one or few auto-requester robots > (ARR). But if governments, politicians, corporations etc... will > discover a new audience in freenet, they will not think two times about > setting up ARRs. > >

Re: [freenet-chat] the plutocratic world of freenet

2005-08-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:38:15PM -0400, Juiceman wrote: > > Yes and (mostly) no. Having many nodes/servers/clusters and pushing > and pulling the data you want will have a small effect on the network, > but generally speaking the more popular the requested data is, the > more places it resides.

Re: [freenet-chat] the plutocratic world of freenet

2005-08-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:08:28PM -0400, S M wrote: > That's why it would be a good idea to be able to insert content into your > local node and have it be kept there. > > You can do that with a little bit of effort but having this ability built in > would be a good idea. Thus if the keys are r

[freenet-chat] Re: the plutocratic world of freenet

2005-08-27 Thread daniele
Juiceman ha scritto: Yes and (mostly) no. Having many nodes/servers/clusters and pushing and pulling the data you want will have a small effect on the network, but generally speaking the more popular the requested data is, the more places it resides. Thus if you have 10 nodes/servers/clusters p