On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:40:19PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > 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.
I'm uncertain about that - there are strong economies of scale on bandwidth, IP addresses, storage and CPU power. Not to mention rewriting the software. > > > 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/ -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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