Juiceman ha scritto:
Yes and (mostly) no. Having many nodes/servers/clusters and pushing
and pulling the data you want will have a small effect on the network,
but generally speaking the more popular the requested data is, the
more places it resides. Thus if you have 10 nodes/servers/clusters
pushing and pulling the content you want, but 100's of other people
are requesting different content, the more requested content would
win.
Well, It would be so if the other 100 other requesters weren't human. If
you have a single machine iteratively requesting content, 24h a day, it
will generate much more traffic that what can produce 100 (or 10000)
regular surfing humans.
A human will request the content 1 time, or 2. 10000 humans will request
max 10.000 times, max 20.000. A single powerful machine can simulate
well such a traffic!
Also please note that content would be divided across the network
based on hash of said content and routing done by the network. So to
replace someone else's content on a node you would also need to find
content with a very close hash to that of the other person's content
(not entirely easy) AND make sure to request it more than the other
content AND control a majority of the routes for that data hash. Even
then after expending great effort and resources you probably wont
entirely succeed...
That would be true if there where only one or few auto-requester robots
(ARR). But if governments, politicians, corporations etc... will
discover a new audience in freenet, they will not think two times about
setting up ARRs.
Each ARR that comes into freenet, will decrease the time non-ARR content
can stay in the network, and increase the time it will need to spread
itself.
The same effect is due to popular files. Suppose there where many big
and very popular files around the network. A publisher will see that
his content is very slow, and has a limited permanence, compared to the
popular files. So he say: "my file will difficultly become popular if it
is so slow and uncertain compared to popular ones. let's set up an ARR
so users will gain speed and my content will have a granted permanence
and integrity".
Imagine a freenet where each, *EACH* publisher auto-requests its content
at minimum 100.000 times a day with a costly server. It's obvious that
between them they have approximatively the same impact on the net, so
they have the same "right to speek".
But a poor publisher, without a costly ARR, will never be able to spread
its content. Because the "limit of popularity" is too high. The time to
get it would be so enormous from a user, that many will give up, not
raising popularity. The minimum requirement to have a decent
reachability and permanence it would be 100.000rqs/day or little less...
That's nothing new.
It's the same as in real democracy.
It has always been very very difficult to combine free speach, right to
listen, and MONEY.
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