> I worked with Bram and Zooko at Mojo Nation (where both BT and Mnet got > their respective genesis) and was frankly surprised when the MPAA was so > easily able to target and put out of commission BT's trackers. The
Why? BT is designed with zero privacy in mind.
And this was a profound error, IMHO. One of the epiphanies from my work at MN was that a secrecy-oriented proxy network development and successful deployment needed to precede P2P file sharing if such networks were to survive determined technical and legal challenges. End users often care little about what 'under the hood' of their P2P app only that they can get the content conveniently and they are not subjected to annoyances like spy or adware.
> exposure of the trackers was a prominent topic of MN planning discussions > and its odd that precautions, like distributing the tracker functions into > clients or hiding them inside a TOR-like proxy network weren't taken
You can post BT links on a P2P network.
But trackers must still be widely accessible by the general population of BT users and can you offer the content or obtain it without likely identification?
Steve
