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Man, that was some funny shit in those discussions!
;-) Almost as funny as some posts on /.
That said, the dudes' argument (finley?), is rather
very, very moot. It's long since established (since the betamax case I believe,
in the usa) that you can't be held liable for knowing that something *might* be
used illegally, not even if you can reasonably assume it is mainly used for
illegal purposes (if there are other, legal uses possible).
That said, however, there might be a point in the
ISP legal status that will probably apply to freenet too (as is the protection
it gets from it); and that is, that an ISP has to remove the illegal stuff, when
notified and under his control (ability) to do so.
Now, I always tought that the dir where you stored
the freenetchunks was extra encrypted too (above the normal encryption), but I
recently read (IIP?) that it wasn't anymore. In that case, while there could
still be discussion if a 'chunk' on itself is legal or not, and apart from the
question if it constitutes entrapment or not, we *could* have a problem in that
regard.
If someone asks for a, say, copyrighted file,
and gets it (or the chunks and their chk keys) from a node, he can then do what
ppl can do with ISPs: ask for the IP, and treat the node he got it from as ISP,
and demand that all infringing chunks are immediately removed. A bit of a
tiresome thing.
I would therefor argue - if this is not the case
(anymore), to re-encrypt the whole storage with an extra layer of encryption,
purely on the client side. It doesn't have to be very strong; even a mere 16 or
even 8 bit encryption would be enough to alter the chks one can find in ones'
node (visually), making it impossible for you to actually go look if the keys
are there (in a recognisable way).
Could be I'm preaching to the choir, however...is
this being done, still? If not, wouldn't it be a good idea to do so? The Higher
Gods can fill this in, no doubt.
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