Re:HearSay: Anonymous and Confidential P2P File Sharing
by brownbat on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @01:29PM
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> but the more difficult and obscure the protocol is
It only looks difficult and obscure because I (stupidly) wrote it as a protocol.
I could/should have just said that users could shuffle what they have on a given service faster than takedown requests come in. They might do this naturally, as a consequence of overzealous takedowns against encrypted blobs on MEGA.
More to your point, Usenet and XDCC have maintained vibrant communities, despite being difficult to use, but on an even more popular level, Bittorrent has incredible popularity and surprising staying power. Sophistication of an underlying protocol isn't really strongly connected to ultimate ease of use.
It only looks difficult and obscure because I (stupidly) wrote it as a protocol.
I could/should have just said that users could shuffle what they have on a given service faster than takedown requests come in. They might do this naturally, as a consequence of overzealous takedowns against encrypted blobs on MEGA.
More to your point, Usenet and XDCC have maintained vibrant communities, despite being difficult to use, but on an even more popular level, Bittorrent has incredible popularity and surprising staying power. Sophistication of an underlying protocol isn't really strongly connected to ultimate ease of use.