Now that we have a new topic on anonimous filesharing, I thought it would be intresting to dig up this old one :D
The ELF network is still up and running

Ummm yeah well I thought this would happen great a network which could route packets through up to an infinite number of hosts unless it has a TTL field which then allows for fake clients to catch all copyright violators on nodes next their own. Who wants to route other peoples downloads I don't want to use all my bandwidth and my data transfer limit for some sico's downloads so they can jack off over exploited little naked children.

Use a open source client and change the TTL to look like it's not coming from you.
I don't think thats how they are busting people though.
Those sickos have feelings too, we must be tolerant, or so says the government and media.

In my opinion, OpenFT is the future of P2P. That system definately looks like it'll kick Gnutella's slow butt out of the place.

Semi-centralisation is a stroke of genius.

You mean you used it and it didn't crash?

Any degree of centralization is a lawyers dream.
Think about it.

No it's not. Centralization up to a certain degree (if the central servers appear and disappear dynamically) doesn't make any difference.

The centralization of OpenFT resembles Fasttrack's Supernodes and Gnutella's Ultrapeers.

We always count of duplication of files on the gnutella network to make the network work better. If this is basicly what OpenFT does, then we already have it due to the numbers of nodes on Gnutella.
In other words, it's not needed on gnutella.