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Honest question here: I always thought that Kazaa and eMule worked decentralized. How was that set up?
by nixle 15y ago
Honest question here: I always thought that Kazaa and eMule worked decentralized. How was that set up?
- roel_v 15y agoThey were, the problem were that the protocol wasn't very good, and that they were closed source so there was a single point at which to cut them off - at the point of distribution. It seems to me that the same reasoning that was used in the lawsuits against Kazaa (which ultimately caused Kazaa's demise) could be applied to this product. Time will tell I guess, when it gets big enough to target - for now the centralized torrent trackers are a lot easier to use and more widely known. Tribler being open source might make it harder to suppress with legal tools. I think the logical step (if it would become mainstream) would be to sue uploaders individually.
- jamii 15y agoTribler might be helped by its veneer of respectability - its funded by P2P Next (http://www.p2p-next.org/ http://www.p2p-next.org/) as part of an EU wide program to create P2P distribution channels.