- On 29th August 2002 by Ashok Argent-Katwala[ashok]
- What is needed to avoid being flooded with bogus content on peer-to-peer networks?
The recent rounds of deliberately crippled information being offered highlights the need for building a reputation system into efforts to build any form of shared-video system. This Register story talks about problems on the KaZaA network, but really this is about metadata and trust. If we build any system with rich metadata - data about the data - then one crucial bit of information is one of veracity. If individual users can pseudonymously claim or disclaim a recording, then there will, over time, be pseudonyms you trust and others you don't (or more likely, 'new' users who you have no reason to trust).
The Plan with videdot is to access any useful file-exchange network, and always publish as much metadata as that network allows. This means we can build a base of trustworthy nodes or pseudonyms and avoid the collapse of the whole scheme by any malicious party.
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