Re: the plutocratic world of freenet

S M <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.freenet.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/26/05, daniele <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Does in freenet prevails the rule of the strongest?
> If I have money, wants to make available my propaganda materials on
> freenet and put out my political enemyes, I can "simply" put up a
> cluster of computers with high bandwidth to iteratively request my
> propaganda.
> My portion of popularity would grow up, and my content will steal disk
> space to other publisher's.
> 
> Is my political opponent more rich than me? Well, it will put up TWO
> clusters, and double the b/w.
> 
> Slowly, the only way to publish something in freenet would be to set up
> at minimum a very powerfull server to autorequest my material.
> The fight will grow up, and at the end... only usual big ones will
> remain capable of publishing their content on "free"net, because any
> other content would be considered not enougth "popular" to be stored on
> the distributed disk...


That's why it would be a good idea to be able to insert content into your 
local node and have it be kept there.

You can do that with a little bit of effort but having this ability built in 
would be a good idea. Thus if the keys are read only they won't be deleted 
by someone trying to do a massive insert, or by these individuals trying to 
request their content over and over so it spreads.

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