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  • From: hal AT finney.org
  • To: bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Hi, and some comments
  • Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:48:20 -0800


Wei writes:
> How does Freenet prevent an attacker from inserting so much garbage that
> most useful files are dropped, or people from using it to trade huge files
> without contributing resources back to the system?
>
> In a MojoNation-style economy anyone can also publish information
> regardless of their personal wealth. This is because storage and bandwidth
> are very cheap and getting cheaper. Consider the fact that there are a lot
> of unused disk space and bandwidth sitting on everyone's desks. If they
> all partcipate in the market it will be very inexpensive to publish
> anything except things like high resolution motion pictures.

One problem which MojoNation is running into is that people don't want to
have to pay to publish.

Most people, when they first hear about MN, understand right away the
idea of paying mojo to download files. However they assume that this
means that they will get paid to supply popular files for download.
This is seen as a way to discourage "leeching" and to encourage people
to make material available, which has been a problem on networks like
Gnutella.

When they discover that they have to pay to put material out into
the network for downloading by others, they become discouraged about
the prospects for MN to succeed in today's crowded P2P environment.
Successfully launching a P2P system requires providing material that
people want to download. And part of this success has to mean making
it easy for people to put stuff out there.

By putting barriers in the way of publishing, MN is setting itself up
with a huge handicap. To some extent they have compensated for it at
present by letting everyone have as much Mojo as they want upon request,
ten million at a time. This totally undercuts the economic foundation for
their model and presumably they intend to stop these giveaways eventually.
But the fact that they've had to do this is an indication that "pay to
publish" just won't fly.

Hal




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