Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-24 Thread georgemw
On 23 Mar 2002 at 9:26, Anonymous wrote: > Also, you have not distinguished clearly one of the main differences > between the Napster-type file sharing networks and what you are calling > storage-surface networks (what does "surface" mean here anyway?). > The difference is that in the latter yo

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-24 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If mojo failed in the way, and for the reasons you describe, the > failure was not that it was money like, but that it was > insufficiently money like. Since the value of mojo was > indefinite, its value could never be well matched to its purpose.

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread jamesd
-- On 23 Mar 2002 at 9:26, Anonymous wrote: > Not all of these are still going but it shows that there is a > lot more in the P2P file sharing and publishing world than just > a few moldering old cypherpunk projects from the 90s. P2P has > really passed the cypherpunk world by. > > As far

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread Steve Schear
At 09:26 AM 3/23/2002 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >As far as the economics, one of the main lessons of the failure of Mojo >Nation was that Mojo didn't work, or perhaps you might say it worked too >well. It caused nothing but problems for the operators of the network. >People tried to horde it, they

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-23 Thread Anonymous
Adam Back writes: > Here's something I wrote up the other night with my thoughts about the > differences between peer-to-peer networks vs the more ambitious > storage surface type propsals and the design criteria which one might > entertain designing against. > > http://www.cypherspace.org

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-22 Thread keyser-soze
>On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: >Sharing copyrighted material in order to get the same is the only working example that I can see. If someone can point to reason why large number of people would give a fuck about fighting censorship, enhancing privacy and anonymity,

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-22 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:43 PM 3/22/02 -0800, Tim May wrote: >On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: > >>> Suggestions for more criteria welcome. >> >> Motivation. >> >> I cannot find a non-computer paradigm that relates to sharing in-house >> private >> resources with unknown others. This may

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-22 Thread Julian Assange
> Sharing copyrighted material in order to get the same is the only working > example that I can see. If someone can point to reason why large number of > people would give a fuck about fighting censorship, enhancing privacy and > anonymity, I'd like to be enlightened. With working real-world exam

design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-22 Thread Adam Back
Here's something I wrote up the other night with my thoughts about the differences between peer-to-peer networks vs the more ambitious storage surface type propsals and the design criteria which one might entertain designing against. http://www.cypherspace.org/p2p/ Suggestions for more c