On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:32:55PM +0200, daniele wrote: > 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.
Flooding is possible. But on the darknet it is pretty hard to flood out the whole network. Obviously having a large network to start with would also help. > > 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". If his content is popular it will rapidly become available quickly. As far as deliberate attacks go, see above. > > 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. It's the love of money that is the root of all evil, not money itself. Flooding is possible, but it can be made expensive by having a large network, and very difficult by having a darknet. An analogy: the gap between super-rich and average isn't so huge that it is practical to buy the entire electorate, in western democracies. Because there are very many of them, and they're not *that* poor. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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