Re: [Mldonkey-users] Now that Filenexus, Sharereactor and Jigle are gone

[mithrandi]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:36:39 -0600, Curtis Magyar wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 15:06 +0200, mithrandi wrote: 
> > > I've always looked at the indexing webpages of the edonkey network as
> > > its greatest strength.  If that system is being jeopardized, then maybe
> > > the time has come for anonymous indexing.
> > 
> > As I say, this only seems to make sense if it is accompanied by
> > anonymous file sharing.
> 
> I'm not so sure.  Say you have Sharereactor on a freenet page, signed
> with the sharereactor key, so you know it's genuine, then the masses
> take their ed2k links from there. The MPAA can go ahead and sue every
> peer downloading the files if they see fit, but I doubt it will work any
> better than the RIAA strategy, and they'll go broke long before they
> make a dent.  The indexers remain anonymous, and useful, and the peers
> don't really matter as much.

How is this different from a distributed indexing setup, then? After
all, the actual ShareReactor key doesn't have any link to any person in
real life. Also, it's impossible to find the "source" of the release
data; anyone on the network sharing that data could be considered the
"source"... they could go after every peer downloading/sharing the
release data, but as you pointed out, such a strategy is futile.

You also avoid the unreliability of Freenet (although this is
improving), the complexity involved in automating Freenet
publishing tasks, and get a setup that is easier to use than the current
situation: to make releases, you just run the software and paste in the
resource information.

-- 
mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar

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