> the important metric is storage availability rather than bandwidth Right true. And bandwidth is largely a byproduct of availability, especially so when the data is in demand, so it's not really of note.
>> One needs a distributed system that gives people incentives to seed - >> that rewards people for providing other people storage and availability. > > I'd say a big reason why people do not help to seed files that they > downloaded is because they are worried about being caught for copyright > breaches. If your incentive could make people immune to this, or at least > mitigate it or make it clear when copyright was not an issue, then you would > see a great deal more seeding. This already exists, it's called: running your client and serving your data under I2P, Tor, or Phantom. And at the same time, not connecting ANY function of it to clearnet IP space, ie: run everything in the anon space. When it's all free and anonymous, the only possible reward is fame. So use PKI for that. And to defeat sybil and other attacks by signing off on rogue node address block lists. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
