this system of wuala you mentioned looks like freenet's distributed storage system that
"works by pooling the contributed bandwidth and storage space of member computers to allow users to anonymously publish or retrieve various kinds of information...Files on Freenet are typically split into multiple small blocks, with additional blocks added to provide redundancy. Each block is handled independently, meaning that a single file may have parts stored on many different nodes"(from wikipeida) data is also encytpted which solves privacy problem and this model also solves the con of a pure p2p system as sylvan has written. that the user would become inaccesible if goes offline... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet http://freenetproject.org/ .another internet is possible_ .-_-. http://httpdot.net/.-_-./ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:43:42 -0700 From: elijah < > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; Such a system would look like this: For every resource > you want to share, encrypt it with its own key, slice it into smaller chunks, > and push it out to a distributed hash table. When you share a resource, the > client provides some revocable means of sharing the resource's > key.
