This gave me an excellent idea about the implementation of a such system.
- Create a P2P software with a nice EULA that claims that by connecting to the network you assume your responsibility to act responsibly and not sue creators.
- When hostile user is detected the P2P network directs all clients to flood the offending user.
Now, this is an excellent way to use the infrastructure of Internet. We dont have to pay for our bandwidth but someone using a lot of it (such as RIAA) will have to do it. Also, attacks from such network will be in form of spikes meaning it is much more destructive then continuous but smaller traffic (meaning the isp offering bandwidth to RIAA will have to buy absurdly sized pipes).
If we get 100 000 users with average of 25kB/s connections that means 2.5 TB/s of traffic, way beyond any backbone! even if that's applied only for a minute it does not hurt the users because they only lose a small amount of their bandwidth but will hurt the isp because they'll be beyond all reach for that moment. just consider the cost of getting a 3 TB/s pipe for a single customer.
Either they pay millions/day for their connection or no isp will shelter them, either way, we win with just few minutes of our 'bandwidth time' per day.
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This gave me an excellent idea about the implementation of a such system. - Create a P2P software with a nice EULA that claims that by connecting to the network you assume your responsibility to act responsibly and not sue creators. - When hostile user is detected the P2P network directs all clients to flood the offending user. Now, this is an excellent way to use the infrastructure of Internet. We dont have to pay for our bandwidth but someone using a lot of it (such as RIAA) will have to do it. Also, attacks from such network will be in form of spikes meaning it is much more destructive then continuous but smaller traffic (meaning the isp offering bandwidth to RIAA will have to buy absurdly sized pipes). If we get 100 000 users with average of 25kB/s connections that means 2.5 TB/s of traffic, way beyond any backbone! even if that's applied only for a minute it does not hurt the users because they only lose a small amount of their bandwidth but will hurt the isp because they'll be beyond all reach for that moment. just consider the cost of getting a 3 TB/s pipe for a single customer. Either they pay millions/day for their connection or no isp will shelter them, either way, we win with just few minutes of our 'bandwidth time' per day.