P2P revisited.

Watson Ladd watsonbladd at gmail.com
Fri May 19 21:10:20 UTC 2006


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Who would do this blocking? Some examples would be nice. I think most  
ISP's don't want customers to leave instead of use their full  
bandwidth allocation.

> Watson Ladd <watsonbladd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If we created a P2P client using Tor that acted as an exit node we
>> could get a lot more users, a lot more traffic, and a lot more
>> capacity, all adding to the anonymity Tor provides.  Any downsides?
>
> While it could motivate some people to run Tor on their servers
> and thus adding capacity, I believe it's more likely that it
> would motivate more people to block as much Tor traffic
> as possible and lead to congestion of the network.
>
> Fabian
> -- 
> http://www.fabiankeil.de/

Sincerely,
Watson Ladd
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"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little  
Temporary Safety deserve neither  Liberty nor Safety."
- -- Benjamin Franklin 


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