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Originally posted by trap_jaw4
He's some German guy always proposing we need this / we need that without the slightest clue what he was talking about. |
lol Ok I get it now.
But I'm not German.
I'm a clueless American
I didn't say we need to change Gnutella that was mcalwell, and it would be way too hard to do anyway. But we still do need this and that.
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Originally posted by trap_jaw4
I think he also had a freenet phase... He also failed to realize that that kind of anonymity freenet offers comes at a price. |
Ya, I know that Freenet currently is the worst p2p out there for getting and sharing files. But it is also the best for anonymity. And they are working on making it faster all the time, if they can make it as fast as Gnutella it would start to see some major usage.
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Originally posted by trap_jaw4
The idea of freenet is that content will be cached by the network and that it will be purged from the network if it is not requested for a while. Now if you have many, many files the number of requests for less popular files will automatically approach zero and you will never be able to share some episodes of some 70's cartoon that get only one download request per day. |
Freenet is still so small with so little storage space for the network that file life is very short like you said, but lately the network size has grown some (thanks to the RIAA) and as a result so has file life. I think that if the network were to be as large as a typical p2p program then file life would be reasonably long.
You are wrong about it being impossible to share less popular files.
I am doing it right now. When you use Frost with Freenet you can share files without even uploading them to the network just like a normal p2p program. The files just have to remain in the same location that you told Frost they were at and you have to run your computer 24/7 sharing them. Then they can be downloaded by anyone that is within a certain number of hops from your computer even though they were never uploaded to the network.
I have also tested this with a friend. I upload a file to the network that no one wanted and it died out in just one day (my friend was not able to download it after one day). Then I shared like I said above and he was able to download it.
You are right though, Freenet currently sucks and there is no way to make Gnutella anonymous. But I woudn't be suprised if Freenet improves enough and there is demand enough some day for Freenet to become widely used.