You dedicate some space on your hard drive to the program, which then stores chunks of unidentified files there and constantly uploads to other clients - it's true decentralized file storage. It was a cool setup when I tried in back in '08 or so, very cyberpunk with its anonymity and plain-text-on-black UI, and I enjoyed reading the Japanese comments (often with SJIS text art) posted by others on the internal chatstream. In the end I didn't actually use it for anything, but it felt like a futuristic BBS.
It would be interesting to see a global equivalent emerge, maybe built upon bittorent DHTs/magnet links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark_(P2P)
You dedicate some space on your hard drive to the program, which then stores chunks of unidentified files there and constantly uploads to other clients - it's true decentralized file storage. It was a cool setup when I tried in back in '08 or so, very cyberpunk with its anonymity and plain-text-on-black UI, and I enjoyed reading the Japanese comments (often with SJIS text art) posted by others on the internal chatstream. In the end I didn't actually use it for anything, but it felt like a futuristic BBS.
It would be interesting to see a global equivalent emerge, maybe built upon bittorent DHTs/magnet links.