What next and when

[billy]

Running parallel infrastructure using separate, redundant lines, probably won't happen, since the infrastructure cost would be astronomical. A more realistic approach, is that the file sharing traffic gets carried via heavily encrypted tunnels on the common public infrastructure.

We are already at a point where bit torrent trackers can be replaced by Distributed Hash Tables. At the moment, my MainLine DHT shows 4.4 million machines in the swarm, and my Vuze DHT shows 1.2 million.

Imagine a future file sharing client that had the built-in code in them whereby millions of these clients running live, underpinned the file sharing catalog sites between them, maintaining a fail-safe fully redundant server and database with massively parallel search capabilities. That would be true cloud computing. It would no longer be possible for anyone to turn off the catalog server, nor would it ever crash. And the enemies of file sharing could never find it, since it would be everywhere and nowhere. It would function as a part of the net itself, as long as millions of file sharers left their client running.

i may have phrased it wrong

i actually meant by the parallel statement through the same lines, wirings either but separated in a way that couldn't be stopped. a sort of net within a net. as you can see, i'm not what you call well versed netz-wise.