Decentralized web [project-maelstrom]

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http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/10/bittorrent-announces-project-maelstrom-the-first-torrent-based-browser/
http://blog.bittorrent.com/2014/12/10/project-maelstrom-the-internet-we-build-next/

Pretty awesome idea, basically a web based on a torrent like infra.

Project Maelstrom begins to answer that question with our first public release of a web browser that can power a new way for web content to be published, accessed and consumed. Truly an Internet powered by people, one that lowers barriers and denies gatekeepers their grip on our future.

I gotta admit that it is a powerful way to take back the control of the webs.
Let's see where this heads.

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Doesn't Freenet already do something like this?

BitTorrent Inc. are really stepping up their game recently. I find it funny how they seem to be focusing on privacy what with the surveillance schemes that's been exposed yet all (that I am aware of) their software is proprietary and therefore could be easily backdoored. Seems lots of other products are doing the same (see: pretty much all mobile chat programs).

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Doesn't Freenet already do something like this?

BitTorrent Inc. are really stepping up their game recently. I find it funny how they seem to be focusing on privacy what with the surveillance schemes that's been exposed yet all (that I am aware of) their software is proprietary and therefore could be easily backdoored. Seems lots of other products are doing the same (see: pretty much all mobile chat programs).

Well it all boils down to trust.
The question is who you like to trust more, could it be worse than it is at this point?
But I agree, the prop. design makes it questionable.
They also launched a decentralized VOIP platform recently.

Yeah there is freenet lol thats some place, think the concept is the same.