Re: Megaupload.com seized

[Alec Muffett <alec.muffett () gmail com>]

On 20 Jan 2012, at 11:00, Tei wrote:

> Fileshares can organize thenselves in sites based on a forum software
> that is private by default (open with registration), then share some
> "information" file that include the url to the files hosted, and the
> key to unencrypt these files, and some metadata. A special desktop
> program* would load that information file, and start the http
> download.


At the risk of kicking over old ground, there are a bunch of privacy solutions like this; possibly the most complete 
attempt (in terms of attempted privacy and distribution) is Freenet:

        http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html

...but it's slow; then there's Tahoe-LAFS - a decentralised filesystem:

        https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs

...but it's slow; then there are connection anonymisation tools like I2P and Tor, but - wonderful as they are - they're 
slow.  

Can you see a pattern developing that would be relevant to the downloader of 700Mb+ AVIs? :-)

It would be great to speed them through wider adoption, but until then...

        -a