Re: P2P revisited.

[Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good point. Consider the idea abandoned.
On May 20, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Fabian Keil wrote:

> Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@xxxxxxxxx> top posted:
>
> > > Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > If we created a P2P client using Tor that acted as an exit node we
> > > > could get a lot more users, a lot more traffic, and a lot more
> > > > capacity, all adding to the anonymity Tor provides.  Any downsides?
> > >
> > > While it could motivate some people to run Tor on their servers
> > > and thus adding capacity, I believe it's more likely that it
> > > would motivate more people to block as much Tor traffic
> > > as possible and lead to congestion of the network.
>
> > Who would do this blocking? Some examples would be nice. I think most
> > ISP's don't want customers to leave instead of use their full
> > bandwidth allocation.
>
> ISPs which offer flatrates but don't want them to be used as such.
>
> Here in Germany many ISPs rate limit known P2P ports and are quite
> happy if P2P users decide to leave. Less P2P users means less traffic
> and more profit.
>
> Fabian
> --  
> http://www.fabiankeil.de/

Sincerely,
Watson Ladd
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