Re: Fwd: Napster hack allows free distribution of software, movies

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From: Adam L. Beberg (beberg@mithral.com)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 16:13:01 PST


On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Eugene Leitl wrote:

> Adam L. Beberg writes:
>
> > > Of course, then you could go meta-evil on me and build the the
> > > community of ****ster communities.
> >
> > That would require something, anonymous, portable, highly decentralized,
> > with an open API... Hmmmm... Nah, I already have plans for tommorow...
> > *grin*
>
> http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

Arg, not this again.

For 10 points each find and reveal the huge flaws in the freenet design.
Feel free to cite the wheels freenet is re-re-[re-*]inventing.

Computer science departments need to make geek history part of their
required coursework. Copying something that doesn't work seems to be the
in thing. It didn't work then, it doesn't work now, and it won't work
next time either.

- Adam L. Beberg
  The Cosm Project - http://cosm.mithral.com/
  beberg@mithral.com - http://www.iit.edu/~beberg/


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