Maby Gnutella clients should act as proxies for other Gnutella clients - requests from your Gnutella client for files and file-transfers should be routed through a randomly choseen Gnutella client.After several possible hops - tracing the originating Gnutella client would be quite difficult. Offensive requests and downloads could tarnish the reputation of the IP# of the proxy Gnutella client, but the catch phrase of "my Gnutella client was just acting as a proxy - honest" would take care of that. Bandwidth would suffer - but the real freedom of Gnutella is the transfer of idea-rich textfiles not huge bootleged MP3's and warz.
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Maby Gnutella clients should act as proxies for other Gnutella clients - requests from your Gnutella client for files and file-transfers should be routed through a randomly choseen Gnutella client.After several possible hops - tracing the originating Gnutella client would be quite difficult. Offensive requests and downloads could tarnish the reputation of the IP# of the proxy Gnutella client, but the catch phrase of "my Gnutella client was just acting as a proxy - honest" would take care of that. Bandwidth would suffer - but the real freedom of Gnutella is the transfer of idea-rich textfiles not huge bootleged MP3's and warz.
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