> At the risk of sounding naive, what prevents Freenet from degenerating > into a single-server model if someone (e.g. MPAA) decides to set up > a super-fast, super-large node? Wouldn't everyone favor this node > because it's so fast?
Only if that one node was so huge that it could compete with the entire rest of the network - which would be a pretty tall order for anyone, including the NSA, assuming that Freenet was widely used. > Is the only defense against this to grow so large that no single > entity can dominate the network? Yes, but this isn't as hard as you seem to imply it might be. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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