Comments on: OneSwarm Turns P2P into F2F

By: OneSwarm Adds Community Server Support

OneSwarm Adds Community Server Support — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:19:05 +0000

[...] the darknet BitTorrent-based application that was released this past February by researchers at the University of Washington, has now released version 0.6.2 that adds several [...]

By: LimeWire

LimeWire — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:16:23 +0000

Comparing this to limewire’s private sharing clearly shows the lack of understanding the purpose and functionality of OneSwarm.

By: The point

The point — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:13:49 +0000

Is is not about making friend-to-friend communication possible, the software uses friends to relay traffic and to create a huge network where participants have direct connection only to friends and indirect connection to anywhere else. The point is to make it hard to track you down. OneSwarm is viable and spreading fast in Sweden after the PirateBay verdict.

By: ConfusedMime

ConfusedMime — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:56:33 +0000

been wondering how worthy this is

By: 1cooldude

1cooldude — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:10:25 +0000

DrewWilson : Another Darknet app. To my knowledge Darknet apps always sound great in theory but due to addoption rates they don’t become addopted by users beyond the domain of p2p obscurity. This is just what I have witnessed myself. Part of what makes p2p popular is the fact that it has a large open network that exposes large quantities of files for the taking. Darknets tend to break that into tiny pockets of p2p pools with a much smaller filebase to pick from (why some users tend to look elsewhere)

Drew to answer your last question, I would venture and guess that some people feel more secure in a smaller p2p pools. Reminds me of the days when if you peed in a large pool, nobody would actually know; but if you peed in a 3-foot pool swimming with your brother, you knew you were getting a warning from your brother or even better from your DAD.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Another Darknet app. To my knowledge Darknet apps always sound great in theory but due to addoption rates they don’t become addopted by users beyond the domain of p2p obscurity. This is just what I have witnessed myself. Part of what makes p2p popular is the fact that it has a large open network that exposes large quantities of files for the taking. Darknets tend to break that into tiny pockets of p2p pools with a much smaller filebase to pick from (why some users tend to look elsewhere)

By: Gamer8585

Gamer8585 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@ DrewWilson

Exactly. If I have friends with what I need I can always just ask them to burn me a DVD with the content on it. The big draw of P2P IMO is that its a huge library of stuff that’s hard to get any other way.

I do see how this might be useful on College campuses where you would want a local decentralized darknet for P2P. But most any other situation would not have enough participants and media to make it practical.

By: carlorossi

carlorossi — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

LimeWire already did it:

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/lime-wire-adds.html
http://lifehacker.com/5107474/limewire-5-alpha-adds-private-peer+to+peer-file-sharing-integrates-with-gmail

..and did it better too!

By: tudza

tudza — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

LimeWire added the friend to friend business. I don’t see any mention of onion style routing of traffic.