P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-08-15 – non-RIAA
Kind of late. Din’t know they busted Winny’s author. It was taken over by someone else despite being closed-source. Hopefully the same will happen with the Lugdunum Eserver (ED2K servers) when he chickens out of new laws or gets busted from new laws over the next 5-10 years. Open Source is still better though.
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Looks like a partnership and not ownership to me. Relakks looks like a simple IP-proxy that can be used on all internet protocols (including file-sharing like Emule and BitTorrent) and not just web/http (Like Proxydom or FirewallDown, which are free but ad-filled). No encryption. Looks like the Pirate Bay (or the whole trio – piratbyran, Pirate Party Sweden / piratpartiet, The Pirate Bay) ran up too much credit card debt recovering from their police raid. If you are that paranoid, switch to a Friend2Friend darkent like waste or use Freenet (which requires friends too get in but usually can get away with non-hostile acquaintances and the secrecy burden is lower). I think it reduces the Pirate Party Sweden’s credibility though.
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Looks like it chunks down a file into 128kb blocks and then mashed and encrypted (one-time cipher-pad) with other 128kb blocks from other files that you have inserted into the file-system image, twice — (orginal XOR RandomA) XOR RandomB. I wonder how is one to file-share these? Looks like it only works by putting in a few dozen of my own files and then shipping the entire image to my warez-friend? Looks more useful for closed-network currying of multiple-file packages, most likely by warez groups but probably also general paranoid communication and espionage, than for open file sharing.
