On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 11:14 +0000, Alec Muffett wrote:
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
Tahoe-lafs can be fast. A grid I help out with is often capable of 600kilobyte/per/second downloads (or faster), and I personally have several files stored on there in excess of 500mb. Close enough to your 700mb movie example. I use this storage as a CDN of sorts, as a friend wrote an HTTP interface to the Tahoe-lafs grid. Should you wish to see it in action, the code and download links are over here --> http://cryto.net/projects/tahoe.html