Completing BitTorrent Decentralization

Njaal writes "With BitTorrent going trackerless, searching for and distributing .torrent files is a natural next step. The Socialized.Net (TSN) is a pure P2P search infrastructure which facilitates P2P searching and distribution of .torrent files. It comes complete with an Azureus (and Firefox) search plugin. TSN is written in Python and is made available under the GPL. Note that this is part of my PhD thesis, and is as such meant as a technology demonstrator."

Comments

Tradeoffs

[tepples]

Eh, trackerless P2P won't aid IP theft much.

"IP theft"? How can you "steal" an IPv4 address? Do you mean "source address spoofing"? If you mean "copyright infringement, patent infringement, trademark infringement, trade secret infringement, or right of publicity infringement", then please be more specific.

The thing that would really blow the lid off would be an anonymous, fast, and simple to use P2P system.

There are tradeoffs in any engineering problem. Good, fast, and cheap: pick two.

Re:Celebrating the freedom to steal

[Travelsonic]

And yes, copyright infringement is a form of theft.

This is not only legally inaccurate, but also an oxymoron. No copyright infringement is not a form of theft, it is a form of unauthorized distribution, copying. Not taking away property of any sort, or if that is not what meet what your definition is, what is it?P