[Rictor]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/30/2311234&from=rss

Hmm, well I'll admit I'm a bit more skeptical now than I was before before.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Weren't you always skeptical? One of bittorrent's most important attributes is that the downloads can be regulated. When was the last time you got anything crap off suprnova? At minimum it's of passable quality and most often of excellent quality.
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[Rictor]

Well, I think that the "indexing" function, namely categorizing torrents based on type ad quality, can (in theory) be seperated from the actual hosting of the torrents and the tracker. I still don't understand how the decentralized tracker thing will work, but in any case it should be possible via some sort of search engine (such as isohunt.com).

What I'm skeptical about is the unknown company financing this, and the fact that the article mentions adware. BT was good because it embraced the spirit of file sharing, aside from being a great protocol. But with only a single company retaining power, I wonder what will happen. I would have prefer it to be

a) open source,
b) free of adware (we'll see what happens, Slashdot might be wrong)

The fact that sloncek in getting paid perhaps points to the fact that suprnova was shut down not because of MPAA pressure, but due to them getting a better offer. I dunno, maybe, I have no proof one way or another.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]See the problem is this: you up a torrent file and simply give it a great rating yourself. It could be anything, 650megs of trojan-spy-assware but since you gave it a great review then people who've used suprnova are going to think that it must be ok.
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[Rictor]

Well naturally you would need either reliable admins (like Surpnova) or users to rate the torrents. Not just one or two people.

[Liberator]

The only way that ratings should be allowed is by people who have completed downloading the torrent which should be checked in such a way as to be very difficult to spoof.

[Rictor]

I don't think you have to worry about that. One person might decide to be an asshole and upload a bad file, but there's no way you could get large groups of people to give it a good rating.

Maybe the rating should take into account how many people have rated it, the more people the more reliable the rating.

[Ashrak]

filelist still owns you

[Anaz]

the coolest way to do a suprnova successor would be to have the list itself torrented. That way every day/week/time unit a 10 mb file that lists every torrent submitted would be on webspace for 6 hours, and then gone, and then propagated through the ether...

[SadisticSid]

I wonder if the MPAA or whatever it is these days is perhaps this 'mystery company' - an instant way for them to harvest IPs for copyrighted material. If they offered me $100k a year (a pittance for them) for access to my new P2P system I'd know where to shove my file-sharing principles

[Rictor]

http://83.149.90.123/interview_with_slon.mp3