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Completing BitTorrent Decentralization

Posted by timothy on from the and-for-your-next-project dept.

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."

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  1. Choice of Language is Questionable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you're a grown-up you should've used a real language like Lisp to write this thing in, instead of Python.

    Wake me up when Python isn't whitespace delimited and decides whether it wants to be a Lisp clone without the beneficial syntax and without the power or a non-Lisp with half of the features of Lisp implemented wrongly.

    1. Re:Choice of Language is Questionable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      If you're a grown-up you should've used a real language like Lisp to write this thing in, instead of Python.

      Nah, if they want a real language they should use Lojban, or if they are really old school, Esperanto.

  2. Tradeoffs by tepples · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  3. Re:Celebrating the freedom to steal by Travelsonic · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    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

    --
    If you believe in privacy, and believe you have "nothing to hide" at the same time, you're a goddammed idiot
  4. Re:Meaning of the disclaimer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You know, there are still some free countries...
    Not everyone lives under a dictatorship enforced by the MPAA.
    I don't know where the author is working on his PhD, but if it is not in the USA, I don't think he has to loose any sleep over it.