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Re: Wednesday, May 30, 2007
What's needed is a free infrastructure... some way to post something, and make sure it stays available, regardless of censorship or hardware failure. For example, if I wanted to put a video on the net, I might choose YouTube, or a commercial ISP, or even my own box at home with a commercial ISP connection. However, no matter what the choice, I can still be censored because commercial concerns OWN the internet. It's very disquieting to see just how easy it is to force an ISP to drop the connection to a given host, or to remove its contents. A transparent, persistent data cloud which just keeps stuff, without regard to source, is necessary. However, the current political climate won't allow it... as some verboten content might be stored in such a cloud. The merit of a distributed storage cloud will eventually make itself known to the world, it's just going to take far longer in our current climate of fear. --Mike--
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