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Singing the songs of creation to shape a free world.

One day the silver kit asked the grey one:

“Who made the light, which brightens our singing place?”

The grey one looked at it lovingly and asked the kit to sit with him, for she would tell a story from the old days when the tribe was young.

“Once there was a time, when the world was light and happiness. During the day the sun shone on the savannah, and at night the moon cast the grass in a silver sheen.

Vielleicht haben Sie in einigen (fast schon antiken) Texten oder auf verschiedenen technischen Webseiten gelesen, dass ein Netzwerk wie Gnutella nicht skalieren könne, also nur bis zu einer bestimmten Zahl an Nutzern noch laufen würde. Als Gegendarstellung möchte ich ihnen zeigen, warum Gnutella heute sehr gut skaliert.

You might have read in some (almost ancient) papers, that a network like Gnutella can't scale. So I want to show you, why the current Version of Gnutella does scale, and does it well.

In earlier versions, up to v0.4, Gnutella was a a pure broadcast network. That means, that every search request did reach every participant, so the number of search requests hitting each node was for an optimal network exactly equal to the number of requests, made by nodes who were in the network. And you can see easily why that can't scale.
But that was only true for Gnutella 0.4.

In the current incarnation of Gnutella (Gnutella 0.6), Gnutella is no longer a pure Broadcast network. Instead, only the smallest percentage of the traffic is done via broadcast.

Comment to: Local man faces court on child pornography charges by heraldstandard.com

As I see it, the only way the authorities did track him was due to his use of p2p-networks.

At the moment, technology makes it relatively easy for the police to track hard criminals in p2p-networks, but it also allows people to do small infringements rather safely (just like people don't stop at red traffic lights when there is no car in sight),

So I'd think the current state quite ideal.

Ich habe gerade ein Experiment gestartet.

Tauschbörsen sind für mich eine Revolution in der Art, wie wir Informationen und Daten wahrnehmen. Wo wir früher noch darüber nachdenken mussten, woher wir bestimmte Inhalte bekommen, müssen wir heute nur noch wissen, wie sie heißen.

Und das ist eine der Folgen eines wahrhaft freien Informationszeitalters: Um etwas zu finden, müssen wir nur seinen (wahren) Namen kennen.