F0wler
December 22nd, 2004, 03:03 PM
Okay, so further to my post in the news section, I got to thinking. Suprnova is now gone, and not likely to come back. That's life, but you move on. The question that now faces us is whether BT will evolve fast enough to outrun the MPAA, who have done everything they can in order to crush the rebellion. Obviously the idea that certain countries are immune to the lobbying powers of trade groups is seriously flawed. However, there are still some possibilities.
It is now safe to assume that websites simply hosting torrent files is foolish. It's not going to get anyone anywhere, only prolong the agony that follows subpoena after subpoena to the hosting company. So, now the question remains, what form will the next evolution take, and will it be fast enough?
I suggested that perhaps the demise of suprnova is in actual fact a challenge, be it inconvient, to programmers to move away from "centralised p2p." Now of course, I realise that BT is not centralised per say, but in terms of reliance upon torrent sites, it seems to be easy to shut down. So What now?
There has been talk of "exeem" a system where users share torrent files, and the media itself. While this is all well and good, it would be fool hardy to base all the hopes of several million people on one piece of software that may or may not come to anything.
I recently saw a post by Gwren, (everyone knows he made ants) talking about the idea of "Hashing a hash," in the hope of giving users further legal "immunity." But personally, I think, contary to the philosphies of tsafa1, and all those other fanboys, that these techniques really only undermine p2p; bringing sharing to the masses. Face, if you use any of those anonymous systems, the mpaa won't care, they just want the FT user.
So really, what I am saying is that I feel it is time to combine decentralised networks, and torrent files. There has to be a way of mass sharing torrents, yet still using bittorrent. Reliance on suprnova and other such sites handed BT to the mpaa on a silver friggin' platter. What we need is a mass co-ordination of all those who have torrent files, and place them on a network designed to share torrents, or even somehting like winmx or emule. I guess this is what exeem is all about, but there's too much to lose of we don't decide our ass from our elbow.
So, in conclusion, are there any suggestions for a new way of co-ordinating the distribution of torrent files, one that does not rely on central webstes or hosts? How could it be acomplished, and how soon?
Thankyou for your time.
It is now safe to assume that websites simply hosting torrent files is foolish. It's not going to get anyone anywhere, only prolong the agony that follows subpoena after subpoena to the hosting company. So, now the question remains, what form will the next evolution take, and will it be fast enough?
I suggested that perhaps the demise of suprnova is in actual fact a challenge, be it inconvient, to programmers to move away from "centralised p2p." Now of course, I realise that BT is not centralised per say, but in terms of reliance upon torrent sites, it seems to be easy to shut down. So What now?
There has been talk of "exeem" a system where users share torrent files, and the media itself. While this is all well and good, it would be fool hardy to base all the hopes of several million people on one piece of software that may or may not come to anything.
I recently saw a post by Gwren, (everyone knows he made ants) talking about the idea of "Hashing a hash," in the hope of giving users further legal "immunity." But personally, I think, contary to the philosphies of tsafa1, and all those other fanboys, that these techniques really only undermine p2p; bringing sharing to the masses. Face, if you use any of those anonymous systems, the mpaa won't care, they just want the FT user.
So really, what I am saying is that I feel it is time to combine decentralised networks, and torrent files. There has to be a way of mass sharing torrents, yet still using bittorrent. Reliance on suprnova and other such sites handed BT to the mpaa on a silver friggin' platter. What we need is a mass co-ordination of all those who have torrent files, and place them on a network designed to share torrents, or even somehting like winmx or emule. I guess this is what exeem is all about, but there's too much to lose of we don't decide our ass from our elbow.
So, in conclusion, are there any suggestions for a new way of co-ordinating the distribution of torrent files, one that does not rely on central webstes or hosts? How could it be acomplished, and how soon?
Thankyou for your time.