I can forsee several fundamental problems with spreading of news through P2P.
First of all is the speed with which anything disseminates through P2P protocols. We're talking somewhere around a day or so for things to spread virally, not to mention the need to publish the presence of the latest news through the various announcement methods (trackers etc).
Second, Google. P2P is not currently googlable.
Third, the tendency is for us to accept whatever news is spread over the web without checking for details. If you know of anyone who still thinks that going on holiday to Bavaria/Thailand/Wherever is putting him in risk of getting his kidneys stolen and himself dumped in a tub of ice water somewhere, it's thanks to unverified mass mailing. Now imagine this being spread over P2P, leading either to a lot of people first falling for alot of false information, then distrusting whatever they hear (cry wolf syndrome)
Finally, remember that P2P has enemies, namely the RIAA and MPAA (and their cronies worldwide). They'll believe, and rightly so, that anything that justifies the existence of P2P networks will weaken their ability to gestapo the net. Therefore I'd expect as much trouble from them as they can concieve up.
Well, my 2 cents.
Speaking of the DNS hierarchy system, I've always wondered how robust it is. Suppose someone were to distribute a piece of malware that simply repeated queries to their dns server for random hosts from the.com,.org,.edu etc domains. These requests would eventually be forwarded to the root servers, adding large amounts of load, and would also clog up DNS caches with alot of useless data (like anyone's gonna have another use for eiogtnetkbmdtb.com), flushing out the caches of useful dns records at the same time. Would the resulting fracas cause the collapse of DNS? Should every damn dns server have their forwarders pointed towards the root servers by default (I know Microsoft ones are) in the first place?
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Wtf what kind of heathen barbarian monsters would block off anime from the chinese. It's inhumane!
Now someone needs to make an implementation for that Linksys WRT54G...
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I can forsee several fundamental problems with spreading of news through P2P. First of all is the speed with which anything disseminates through P2P protocols. We're talking somewhere around a day or so for things to spread virally, not to mention the need to publish the presence of the latest news through the various announcement methods (trackers etc). Second, Google. P2P is not currently googlable. Third, the tendency is for us to accept whatever news is spread over the web without checking for details. If you know of anyone who still thinks that going on holiday to Bavaria/Thailand/Wherever is putting him in risk of getting his kidneys stolen and himself dumped in a tub of ice water somewhere, it's thanks to unverified mass mailing. Now imagine this being spread over P2P, leading either to a lot of people first falling for alot of false information, then distrusting whatever they hear (cry wolf syndrome) Finally, remember that P2P has enemies, namely the RIAA and MPAA (and their cronies worldwide). They'll believe, and rightly so, that anything that justifies the existence of P2P networks will weaken their ability to gestapo the net. Therefore I'd expect as much trouble from them as they can concieve up. Well, my 2 cents.
Speaking of the DNS hierarchy system, I've always wondered how robust it is. Suppose someone were to distribute a piece of malware that simply repeated queries to their dns server for random hosts from the .com, .org, .edu etc domains. These requests would eventually be forwarded to the root servers, adding large amounts of load, and would also clog up DNS caches with alot of useless data (like anyone's gonna have another use for eiogtnetkbmdtb.com), flushing out the caches of useful dns records at the same time. Would the resulting fracas cause the collapse of DNS? Should every damn dns server have their forwarders pointed towards the root servers by default (I know Microsoft ones are) in the first place?