Federated BitTorrent Technology
p2pnet news view P2P:- In the ever increasing one-up-manship and cat-and-mouse games being played between internet users of all walks of life, and the content cartels (Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and the Hollywood studios, Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney) the winners will always be the internet users.
Since the destruction of Napster, and the declaration of war against the non-compliant consumers to purchase what, where, how, and for the price demanded by the MAFIAA, has led to ever increasing technologies. Not in the fashion of freely available digital content at a price more suited according to the theory of supply and demand as consumers would hope, but for the internet users who refuse to bow to draconian suppression.
In the light of the MPAA’s single-minded self-destructive path to pursue even search engines, and their owners, that link to infringing content until their dying breath, new technologies will always, always arise to circumvent such insane notions of utter, and complete control of the internet.
While the MPAA feverishly attempt to ban access to ban any and all access to the well known BitTorrent indexer, The Pirate Bay, another future is emerging. And I mean our future, P2P’s future, not the MAFIAA’s.
With the file sharing community waiting with baited breath for the imminent meltdown of the BitTorrent community, fearing the disappearance of the indexes held by The Pirate Bay, and its’ potential loss, I am sorry to say, it ain’t gonna happen.
Even tho Dutch researchers calculate that The Pirate Bay is responsible for around 50% of the world’s publicly accessible torrents, the future of torrents is bright and shiny, thanks to a development of new and improved distribution models.
Enter OpenBitTorrent, and the first innovative improvement of the BitTorrent’s infrastructure debuted as the OpenBitTorrent.com tracker. Interestingly, the domain was initially registered to one of The Pirate Bay’s co-founders, Frederik Neij, however, recently the domain information has been anonymized. Weeks later PublicBT.com emerged, and according to insiders, a third tracker is in the works. All of these new trackers are based on the OpenTracker project similiar to the one The Pirate Bay is based on.
This new project will allow trackers to syncronize data instantaneously via UDP multicasting, and update each others’ database across the internet. The results of this network would be a kind of federated tracker network that would allow each tracker to be part of an interconnected ‘cloud’, distributing indexing and load balancing across all trackers configured to use this cloud.
This will improve redundancy and will be a fail-safe if one or more tracker is removed from this cloud. The founders behind this development and deployment seem to be the same admins of The Pirate Bay, in efforts to decentralize the tracking and indexing of torrents.
The end result would create an overwhelming logistical nightmare for the MAFIAA and even their battalion of lawyers would be insufficient to stop the spread of the BitTorrent protocol. If one should be sued off the LAN, there would be an insignificant reduction in overall availability of content via this protocol.
For each and every single infringement on consumer rights, there will be a corresponding technology that will emerge that will return that right the internet, one hundred fold. While the MAFIAA continue their litigation against The Pirate Bay, 3 other indexing websites have emerged with more powerful abilities to circumvent their archaic business model, and efforts to control content in the digital world we now live in.
Let the ‘Whack-a-mole’ continue, it only benefits the internet in the end.
surfer
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July, 2009
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July 15th, 2009 at 7:51 am
hehe
July 15th, 2009 at 10:27 am
My response:
http://forums.degreez.net/viewtopic.php?p=29195
July 15th, 2009 at 10:43 am
while, for all intentions, you are correct John, I was not implying that this was a ‘catch-all’ scenario for illicit (NOT illegal) file sharing, it was an exercise is proving that if the MAFIAA whack one ‘mole’ (tracker), more show up in its place.
encryption could easily be layered over the connectivity to obscure behaviour, or blocked entirely with firewalls (i.e. PG2).
stw
July 15th, 2009 at 10:43 am
yeah this is great!!!!!!!!!
fock the mafiaa and the riaa and the ifpi
go to hell yeah the hell you guys limit our internet freedom and you are ruing people’s life’s assholls
your scruwed!!
July 15th, 2009 at 11:05 am
quote from Johns response
“I’ll say it again: BitTorrent was not designed to evade law enforcement, and if you want to download pirated content you should use a different protocol.”
That’s the gem right there!! Well said!!
stw
July 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
But if all the sites/servers update from each other, then how easy is it to poison the network with bad updates? By it’s very design, if the bad update can be got into the system, the self-replication will make it propagate throughout the network and screw it up.
As we know, keeping just one computer very secure is difficult, hundreds or thousands will be impossible.
This problem has to be thought about very carefully and guarded against with great vigilance.
Perhaps Surfer can enlighten us on this one?
July 15th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
If the servers do not communicate cryptographically secured, there is _always_ a loop hole. Even secured, if the dns infrastructure itself got compromised, this advantage vanishes.
Maybe it is just http-redirect 302 or something for now, later the interchange of common peers. I don’t know how it works, though. But redirects can work independently from poisoning, because myopentracker.example.com is controlled by me – and the redirects (in form of an ip or domain-name) are configured by me.
July 15th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
A link to the original story would be much appreciated … especially if you copy it almost line by line
July 15th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
everyones a critic…
http://www.lmgtfy.com
research links:
http://newteevee.com/2009/07/14/post-pirate-bay-a-federated-tracker-network-emerges/
http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-1109.html
stw
July 16th, 2009 at 4:14 am
If you think lmgtfy.com is good, then you’ll love http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com
I know my post was negative, but when it comes to a war like the RIAA scumbags are waging, it’s better to be devil’s advocate/paranoid and try to think of as many vulnerabilites as possible and try to protect against them, however unlikely those threats might seem.
I hope this technology can help guard us against the enemy.
And thanks for the links.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:19 am
“…it’s better to be devil’s advocate/paranoid…”
:S