> I just wish there was something that didn't require > much initial > investment. Something we commonfolk could do. > > -todd
I think some of you guys have got the wrong idea about my suggestion. We don't want to set up webservers to pull content from freenet. I don't think we want to have them pay us to setup nodes for the insertion. Economics of Pron Video Distribution Say it costs your ISP charges $10 per GB. You want people to look at sample videos that are 10MB. So per sample video you pay $0.10 to upload them from your webserver. That's not cheap considering the vast majority may be content to look at the sample but not buy anything. Enter filesharing Networks Now you can upload your 10MB once for $0.10 and have 1 guy look at it. If he doesn't delete it right away, the file will propagate costing you nothing, but giving you free advertising. Enter FreeNet Now you can do the same thing. But unlike in filesharing networks where you can only setup a long file name to describe your content, now you can make a nice little freesite with links to your pay website, thumbnails, descriptions, and hashcodes identify material before it's downloaded. That beats the hell out of stupid long filenames that just contain faul language to temp people into downloading them. What they want: to save bandwidth and get paying customers What do they have: pron and bandwidth How this helps: if their nodes are "forced" to be "good" freenet nodes by the system, they will have a positive externality. They may also be inclined to donate money. Now let's look at the downsides real quick: 1) Files they share will of then be for micro$oft media player(oraface) and may be virulent. Not our fault/problem. The good news is that the "respectable" freesites may promise good content. 2) If things in Freenet are usually found in HTL 10 90% of the time you're up/downloading for someone else. We can't expect them to spend more bandwidth then they would if the just hosted the stuff on the web. 3) The may try to take advantage of freenet using all their bandwidth to insert and as little as possible to answer queries. Someday Freenet may ensure this isn't a problem, but hell *someday* the routing will work right :-P 4) These jerks may not feel the need to donate money to the cause. __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Logos und Klingeltöne fürs Handy bei http://sms.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
