> This cannot be achieved with Freenet since the process of checking to see
> whether content is on a machine will actually place the content on that
> machine regardless of whether it was there before, so it is *this
> software* which will cause the propagation of the infringing content - by
> their reasoning, therefore, it is their own software which should be
> banned. We call this the "I'm Sparticus" strategy.
They are so clever, those enforcer guys.
Anyway, they can still shut down Freenet nodes. Here's my clever algorithm
for shutting down Freenet nodes.
foreach IP in Internet.addresses
foreach port in IP.ports
if(nodeRunning(port))
send(ISP.forIP(IP), new CeaseAndDesistLetter())
Because a lot of ISPs will simply honor a cease and desist letter because
they can't afford to mess with Them and not that many people run Freenet
nodes and they think Freenet is just another Napster and all Freenet
users are actively participating in copyright infringement.
I don't see anyway around it except to make Freenet nodes undetectable by
their software. That part shouldn't be hard. The hard part is making it so
that nodes can still talk to each other even though any node you talk to
might be Them.
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