Why not blend the gnutella model with the ol Napster one. p2pHero encodes her own ogg files (verifies) them with her public key. They go out and they are verified by the key instead of size. If 10 people ecoded the same song off of a CD at the same 'bitrate' but were all using different rippers/encoders, the files might not be identical (defaults for many of these programs have different settings other than bitrate). So size will never be a reliable integrity validator. If I will vouch for my own files, and I am added to your trusted list, everyones happy and we can drop the vandals/overlords or whatever they call themseleves (I think your scumbags and you can't possibly sleep well doing what you do for a living) from pissing in the pool. It's not perfect I know and there needs to be more worked out but this is the direction it needs to head because the current model won't last much longer with these dirtbags trying to pollute the network.
If you can hold on a bit (?!) longer, the YOPY should be available very soon. I'm certain many people are waiting on it. It's linux based and aparently can do absolutely everything.
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Why not blend the gnutella model with the ol Napster one. p2pHero encodes her own ogg files (verifies) them with her public key. They go out and they are verified by the key instead of size. If 10 people ecoded the same song off of a CD at the same 'bitrate' but were all using different rippers/encoders, the files might not be identical (defaults for many of these programs have different settings other than bitrate). So size will never be a reliable integrity validator. If I will vouch for my own files, and I am added to your trusted list, everyones happy and we can drop the vandals/overlords or whatever they call themseleves (I think your scumbags and you can't possibly sleep well doing what you do for a living) from pissing in the pool. It's not perfect I know and there needs to be more worked out but this is the direction it needs to head because the current model won't last much longer with these dirtbags trying to pollute the network.
If you can hold on a bit (?!) longer, the YOPY should be available very soon. I'm certain many people are waiting on it. It's linux based and aparently can do absolutely everything.