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Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Fri Aug 9 19:25:04 2002
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:23:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Crypto List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>, cypherpunks@lne.com
In-Reply-To: <20020809195532.500AD46D3@notatla.demon.co.uk>
Antonomasia wrote:
> My copy of "Peer to Peer" (Oram, O'Reilly) is out on loan but I think
> Freenet and Mojo use protocols that require new users to be
> contributors before they become consumers. (Leaving aside that
> Gnutella seems doomed on scalability grounds.)
Freenet and Mojo Nation have had serious issues in the wild, but my
project, BitTorrent, is currently being used in serious deployment, and
its leech resistance algorithms are proving quite robust -
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
This is a very narrow form of leech resistance, but it may be all that is
needed.
-Bram Cohen
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
-- John Maynard Keynes
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