oh, good times. I donÂ’t hear people talking about “leveling Fallujah” much anymore….

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from a personal perspective, i believe we need to implement more security features, for example transport encryption needs stepping up, and perhaps measures such as sharing information with trusted IPs from private trackers to prevent the M/RIAA from undertaking their sneaky shit on the public trackers.

It’s not true that I can stop my computer from uploading? I can’t turn it off? I can’t unplug it? I can’t run my torrent client in, say, a VM and reset the VM? How does cryptography help here? How does it prevent me from installing a client that lies about what it’s ratio is?

I agree there there are some who are more interested in making their content available, but the fact that they’ve put their content on BT shows they *are* interested in reducing bandwith and, so, are concernew with leechers.

The major reason for using BT is to share bandwith with those downloading/seeding.

What’s even more dubious is whether there is something like a perfect ratio and whether it would actually improve anything. If you force people to have a good ratio, even though most have asymmetric bandwidth, they’ll simply move on. There are many people who don’t really care about leeching anyway because they are more interested in making their stuff available than downloading themselves. I mean, just imagine, how would the world-wide web look like if it made use of ratios? “Sorry you can’t browse this website because you don’t have any homepage.”

You take your thumbdrive with it’s cargo of goodies and use a public computer to upload your crap packed in an unlabeled .rar with a few added nonsense files to confuse the hash to a public storage space. Then you go to your Listing space and list the url of your file and the name of your file.

A current incarnation of this is Rapid-Share for storage and Blogger.com for listing and commenting on the files. For security, each member could require an invite or something as we do now…and sense the uploading is done elsewhere, such as a cyber cafe or on public PC’s…

Personally, I’d like to see the cloud be able to act as a sort of informal torrent site. My client can define a local cloud (the definition of local is up for debate) and be able to show me new torrents in my local cloud, allow me to search against a cache of “local” torrents, etc. Because my cloud may not be the same cloud as that of a user three hops from me, with some smart caching, clients could do both “local” and “semi-local” searches or announcements by checking the files available on systems that are outside my cloud, but one “cloud-hop” from me. If connections and a count of available files was also available, the client could make multiple hops to find the clients in linked clouds with the largest caches. Search would be slow, but if you set up “triggers”, you could simply set up a system that identified matches, put them in an unstarted queue, and allowed you to either start them or list them as ignorable.

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Though that makes me wonder, could you get out of it if you say that your machine was mindlessly routing possibly copyright infringing content, like your isp’s routers do every day…

this also mean the end of **AA suing people.

We’ve been through a honeymoon period – a lawless vacuum on a new frontier – a place where no law existed.

But as each case occurs – the law makes itself present and defines it’s own power regarding this area.

I think we are dealing with something much more complicated than the ascent of vhs, dvd or mp3, it’s a much bigger equation – with simply many more people and devices and cultural forms involved.

I think the rise of law to this area will continue to be complicated and in it’s way innovative. It’s law which will define the extent of power of the ‘pullers’ – the consumers, who dictate over and above the former suppliers & their old models of manufacturing culture.

But Law is the final word. it is extremely powerful in it’s influenece on the mind of the masses. It can irradicate whole realities – it can put back developments for a whole generation (upto 20 years) and inturrupt what would have been a natural organic process of growth.

The way the Law is being defined at present is intense. It’s on a day-by-day basis. It’s still open – could swing 100% one way or another.
It is the new frontier within the frontier and once established, it carries the last laugh.

I already see progress in this area. For example, http://www.foxtorrent.com/ lets you download torrents directly in your browser, and sites like http://www.flixflux.co.uk and http://www.thesprawl.se organise torrents and link it with other data to make is much easier to find films and tv shows your after.

In the future I think the whole process will be automated. New TV shows and films will be automatically downloaded based on your preferences. It’s exciting times!

Jordan

1. Tor-like anonymous options enabled by default (everyone becomes an exit router & everyone gains from it). Donating of bandwidth as an exit router mandatory (i.e. min 25% of your bw).

2. Forced Encryption (header+payload) enabled by default.

3. Video (Read TV) Streaming through it a la delayed Sattelite TV access to all channels in the world (encrypted & annonymous).

4. Continuous developtment of Intelligent code to circumvent the toughest ISP throttling/blocking techniques out there. ISP throttling is likely to become and even greater threat to bittorent than the MAFIAA’s & CRIA’s of the world.

5. Expand the protocol to support other Internet protocols (i.e. Email, music streaming, tucows/linux/patching distros, etc) such that other unprotected protocols gain from the anonymity of bittorent, and the encryption. In return, ISPs have less reason to block it because it will be increasingly be used for legit reasons.

6. Allow for MD5 like encrypted signatures of people who upload torrents so that we can distinguish a real AXXO from a fake one (and also clean up 90%+ of all the fake torrents out there).

Beyond that, I wish Torrent tracker admins also increased security today:

1) All torrent sites should run ONLY on httpS (SSL). There’s no excuse not to (ok so it sucks up more CPU), but it kills ISP & law snooping.

2) Torrent site admins should continue to work together and develop BEST PRACTICES list for how to setup a torrent site, with special focus on security. For instance the following should be part of the list of step by step instructions:

a) How to configure HTTPS
b) How to run encrypted partitions on all your servers.
c) How to automatically delete all user related log files that could be used to identify users.
d) Establish secret code words between original senior site admins for the purpose of sending secret urgent messages (i.e. “Hey I’m going to 7/11 to grab a slurpee”)… which actually means “hey I got busted, delete everything & go hide”.
e) Any forum rooms and/or IRC sould all run over forced encrypted connections. There’s no excuse not to.
f) How to perform encrypted backups of key server configs to offshore secure sites.

I’m sure others can come up with even more ideas.

Anon787[/quote]

Beautiful. Brilliant. These are the only important parts of next-gen P2P, and in the past three years I have seen zero development on any of these fronts. I can only hope that the R&D is going on underground, but reality calls for something more tangible.

With respect to additional suggestions, all that’s left is (I can’t remember the name for it), ability of the network to operate even with a significant proportion of corrupted/infected nodes.

But for now, the ISP-throttling DPI is a cat and mouse game, and in over three years, DPI has been advancing nonstop, whereas BT came up with a half-hearted “header encryption”. We are losing: developers save us!

1. Tor-like anonymous options enabled by default (everyone becomes an exit router & everyone gains from it). Donating of bandwidth as an exit router mandatory (i.e. min 25% of your bw).

2. Forced Encryption (header+payload) enabled by default.

3. Video (Read TV) Streaming through it a la delayed Sattelite TV access to all channels in the world (encrypted & annonymous).

4. Continuous developtment of Intelligent code to circumvent the toughest ISP throttling/blocking techniques out there. ISP throttling is likely to become and even greater threat to bittorent than the MAFIAA’s & CRIA’s of the world.

5. Expand the protocol to support other Internet protocols (i.e. Email, music streaming, tucows/linux/patching distros, etc) such that other unprotected protocols gain from the anonymity of bittorent, and the encryption. In return, ISPs have less reason to block it because it will be increasingly be used for legit reasons.

6. Allow for MD5 like encrypted signatures of people who upload torrents so that we can distinguish a real AXXO from a fake one (and also clean up 90%+ of all the fake torrents out there).

Beyond that, I wish Torrent tracker admins also increased security today:

1) All torrent sites should run ONLY on httpS (SSL). There’s no excuse not to (ok so it sucks up more CPU), but it kills ISP & law snooping.

2) Torrent site admins should continue to work together and develop BEST PRACTICES list for how to setup a torrent site, with special focus on security. For instance the following should be part of the list of step by step instructions:

a) How to configure HTTPS
b) How to run encrypted partitions on all your servers.
c) How to automatically delete all user related log files that could be used to identify users.
d) Establish secret code words between original senior site admins for the purpose of sending secret urgent messages (i.e. “Hey I’m going to 7/11 to grab a slurpee”)… which actually means “hey I got busted, delete everything & go hide”.
e) Any forum rooms and/or IRC sould all run over forced encrypted connections. There’s no excuse not to.
f) How to perform encrypted backups of key server configs to offshore secure sites.

I’m sure others can come up with even more ideas.

Anon787

I would hope, especially after we have seen large trackers such as OiNK and Demonoid go under, that a decentralized tracker-free system can be developed. If this is not possible, a less tracker reliant system would also be an excellent start.

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Did you mean, “I have little doubt that 5 or 10 years from now we will be using the same protocol” ?

In any case, with technology you can always expect the unexpected as long as

people continue to show interest in a specific field. Hopefully we’ll have plenty of hard-working innovative minds on our side trying to concoct some new breed of file-sharing technology to facilitate our sharing endeavors. I am also hopeful that the industry also evolve and reconsider their seemingly now ineffective and outdated approach towards customers and development of new media.[/quote]

i am sorry but are you retarded? the sentence was stated correctly

lmao

Did you mean, “I have little doubt that 5 or 10 years from now we will be using the same protocol” ?

In any case, with technology you can always expect the unexpected as long as people continue to show interest in a specific field. Hopefully we’ll have plenty of hard-working innovative minds on our side trying to concoct some new breed of file-sharing technology to facilitate our sharing endeavors. I am also hopeful that the industry also evolve and reconsider their seemingly now ineffective and outdated approach towards customers and development of new media.

I hope the next protocol isn’t just “bittorent with our names on it”, but a radically different protocol.

My prediction? Major sites will fall, new sites will come up. We will mourn the loss and be thankful to all the fallen sites have given us, while trying to make the new sites the best they can be.