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ASU2003 · 02-05-2008, 06:42 PM

I wonder if my neighbor knows he downloaded 3 HD movies in the past two weeks (24 Gb)... I would have bought them on HD-DVD, but they aren't out on either format and it has been 4 years since they were in theaters.

But I think I am done downloading stuff after this. I need to work on organizing what I have (and actually watching what I have downloaded).

The ISPs are lucky that they have only had to deal with software P2P programs so far. Just wait until someone like me makes a hardware P2P network. Here is the concept. You take a bunch of wi-fi routers, modify them to talk and pass data encrypted between each other in a Tor style mesh network. Everyone's network would be open for the passing of data through it (75% public / 25% local user), but you couldn't get to the computer behind the network. A decentralized mesh network is what the internet was supposed to be, but now it is far from it. Individual users shouldn't be identifible, traffic (of any content) couldn't be traced, there would be no monthly fees (just keep your wifi router plugged in), and there wouldn't need to be ISPs anymore (at least not for people who wanted to transfer files).

02-05-2008, 06:42 PM	#49 (permalink)
ASU2003 immoral minority Location: Back in Ohio	I wonder if my neighbor knows he downloaded 3 HD movies in the past two weeks (24 Gb)... I would have bought them on HD-DVD, but they aren't out on either format and it has been 4 years since they were in theaters. But I think I am done downloading stuff after this. I need to work on organizing what I have (and actually watching what I have downloaded). The ISPs are lucky that they have only had to deal with software P2P programs so far. Just wait until someone like me makes a hardware P2P network. Here is the concept. You take a bunch of wi-fi routers, modify them to talk and pass data encrypted between each other in a Tor style mesh network. Everyone's network would be open for the passing of data through it (75% public / 25% local user), but you couldn't get to the computer behind the network. A decentralized mesh network is what the internet was supposed to be, but now it is far from it. Individual users shouldn't be identifible, traffic (of any content) couldn't be traced, there would be no monthly fees (just keep your wifi router plugged in), and there wouldn't need to be ISPs anymore (at least not for people who wanted to transfer files).