Re: [Social-discuss] P2P or server approach?

[Matija Šuklje]

My 0.0149948 €:

Data by itself is not covered by copyright (or droit d'autheur), but 
collections of data (e.g. databases) are. e.g. if someone shares a vCard 
with you, you can safely modify it in your own collection and/or 
redistribute it.

Concerning the P2P vs. server approach. I think it should work both ways. 
Personally, I'd prefer small servers or even personal servers like e.g. the 
aforementioned Guru/Sheeva Plug, but I see no problem running a daemon on 
either a dedicated server or a desktop/laptop enhanced with a P2P network.

But in any case I think GPG could be used not only for encryption, but — IMO 
equally important — as a signature for assuring the data originated from the 
person who owns the GPG key. This way even if the data was distributed via 
P2P, you could make sure who it came from and whether it was modified (and 
by who).

If GPG causes too much overhead, a slightly less nice solution would be to 
store hashes of peer data on (de)centralised servers.


Cheers,
Matija
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