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

[Curtis Magyar]

On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 15:59 +0200, mithrandi wrote:

> 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.

The sharereactor key would have a link to a person though, like it says
here, thats what they are for:

Using a SSK, a user can built his own space, with her own rules and her
own KSKs, therefore reducing collisions between KSKs. The other use of a
SSK is to allow a user to built a reputation by publishing documents
while remaining anonymous but still identifiable.   Anonymous documents
are of little value, because they are unreliable. Using this system, an
author can prove that he is the author of a given document. After a
while, this author can become trusted by others and build a reputation,
without disclosing her identity, which can sometime be dangerous. SSKs
rely on a public/private key scheme.
 - 
http://dgarnier.etudier-online.com/macs598-dos/research-project/freenet-paper.html#_Toc512839368

Publishing on freenet is very easy to do as well, for example:
http://freeweb.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

And a very nice little tutorial on how to publish a freesite:
http://www.firenze.linux.it/~marcoc/index.php?page=content

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Curtis