Re: Microsoft on Darknet

2002-11-23 Thread Neil Johnson
On Saturday 23 November 2002 11:32 pm, Steve Schear wrote: At 04:59 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: Mojo was intended to do this but it failed, I think it failed because they failed to monetize mojo before it was introduced as service management mechanism. I failed because it had

Re: Microsoft on Darknet

2002-11-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:59 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: Mojo was intended to do this but it failed, I think it failed because they failed to monetize mojo before it was introduced as service management mechanism. I was part of the team and I respectively disagree. Sorry to sound a bit like

Re: Microsoft on Darknet

2002-11-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, James A. Donald wrote: Mojo was intended to do this but it failed, I think it failed because they failed to monetize mojo before it was introduced as service management mechanism. Mojo ultimatively failed because MojoNation failed. MNet is very alive, though, and it will

Re: Microsoft on Darknet

2002-11-22 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:59 PM 11/21/02 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: -- According to Microsoft, http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc Darknet is being undermined by free riders. They attribute this to 2 things: most are on 56Kbps, and legal harassment of large sharers is possible. I suspect it is

Re: Microsoft on Darknet

2002-11-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Darknet is being undermined by free riders. They attribute this to 2 things: most are on 56Kbps, and legal harassment of large sharers is possible. I attribute this to lack of agoric load levelling, and prestige accounting. Legal harassment is