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Is Rodi BitTorrent's Replacement?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bouncing-round-and-round dept.

tilleyrw writes "From ZDNet Blogs: 'Rodi is a small-client P2P application, written in Java, that improves on BitTorrent by allowing both content searches and full anonymity. It's released under the General Public License (GNU). Even your IP address can be hidden using Rodi through a process called "bouncing." That is, if A wants a file from B, they get C to agree to stand-in on the exchange. B gets C's IP address, not A's. Through IP Spoofing A can even hide their identity from C. Rodi can also be used from behind corporate firewalls and LANs using Network Address Translation (NATs), something most home gateways have.' "

6 of 618 comments (clear)

  1. Nice! by Enigma_Man · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can anonymously download all of those legal Linux distributions, and non-licensed music I've been holding off on, and nobody will be the wiser, mwahahaha!

    -Jesse

    --
    Nothing says "unprofessional job" like wrinkles in your duct tape.
  2. Boy by Anita+Coney · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd hate to be C.

    --
    If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
  3. The legal uses for this technology are endless by dioscaido · · Score: 1, Funny

    First, we have the ability to .... uhm ... well, second we can't forget that we can ... uhm ... screw it, is Episode 3 on the network yet??

  4. Re:Malware by Jemm · · Score: 3, Funny

    " Will it install Malware, adware, nagware like Kazaa? I still stick with Unet groups."

    Shhh!!!, there's an unwritten rule on /. stating that no one will make mention of unet^H^H^H^H, um, never mind

  5. ugly image by SamSeaborn · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm not downloading it because that weird photo on their web page is ugly and freaking me out. I'm scared already.

    Sam

  6. heh... by AugstWest · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rodi can also be used from behind corporate firewalls and LANs using Network Address Translation (NATs), something most home gateways have

    "Hello, Security? Hi, I need to have NATting set up for my workstation. What? Oh, just a P2P filesharing app. Yeah, it's pretty cool, it's fairly anonymous, and it can spoof its IP, and it.... Hello?"