Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-24 Thread georgemw
On 23 Mar 2002 at 9:26, Anonymous wrote: Also, you have not distinguished clearly one of the main differences between the Napster-type file sharing networks and what you are calling storage-surface networks (what does surface mean here anyway?). The difference is that in the latter you

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread Anonymous
Adam Back writes: Here's something I wrote up the other night with my thoughts about the differences between peer-to-peer networks vs the more ambitious storage surface type propsals and the design criteria which one might entertain designing against. http://www.cypherspace.org/p2p/

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread keyser-soze
On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: Sharing copyrighted material in order to get the same is the only working example that I can see. If someone can point to reason why large number of people would give a fuck about fighting censorship, enhancing privacy and anonymity,

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:26 AM 3/23/2002 +0100, Anonymous wrote: As far as the economics, one of the main lessons of the failure of Mojo Nation was that Mojo didn't work, or perhaps you might say it worked too well. It caused nothing but problems for the operators of the network. People tried to horde it, they got

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread jamesd
-- On 23 Mar 2002 at 9:26, Anonymous wrote: Not all of these are still going but it shows that there is a lot more in the P2P file sharing and publishing world than just a few moldering old cypherpunk projects from the 90s. P2P has really passed the cypherpunk world by. As far as

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-22 Thread Morlock Elloi
Suggestions for more criteria welcome. Motivation. I cannot find a non-computer paradigm that relates to sharing in-house private resources with unknown others. This maybe the the principal conceptual obstacle. Outside irrelevantly low-numbered activist circles, masses just do not want to

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-22 Thread Tim May
On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: Suggestions for more criteria welcome. Motivation. I cannot find a non-computer paradigm that relates to sharing in-house private resources with unknown others. This maybe the the principal conceptual obstacle. Outside