I've heard Flickr do it. I have never ever heard a vanity site hoster do it without warnings or facilities to take content off, and hosters seem less interested in policing than community sites are. I have some exprience; I myself have been deleted on a warez charge (the PHKL page got front page on /.) but the way that went was better than the way Flickr behaves. I am also thinking that while a hoster may delete a hosted person, at least it would just be one, and not have the whole network go with it.
Using Torrent with an easy to use gui (Azareus? BitTorrent?) as an example (did you already use it, I confess I just skimmed your article-cause you sold me on the details of your idea quite a while back) I think one could create a social networking site that was distributed, hard to remove and dead easy to use.
I am quite excited about the promise of Dreamwidth .... but I like the width of your dream better.
Posted Dec 10th. The link pointed to still on spdcc, my previous web space by a friend, but the admin of that put a redirect in to exonome's page. Two weeks later I get a mail from from my hoster in terrible english that exonome is obviously hosting warex, just look at the spike in my traffic, please vacate now. They were not to be plied. ON Christmas Eve I was making backups of my site to load somewhere else.
It was an 'unlimited bandwidth' account early hosters were experimenting with. I was eating their margins alive. When I moved to a generous account on another hoster, I still regularly had overages for years.
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Date: 2009-05-03 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-03 10:49 pm (UTC)Using Torrent with an easy to use gui (Azareus? BitTorrent?) as an example (did you already use it, I confess I just skimmed your article-cause you sold me on the details of your idea quite a while back) I think one could create a social networking site that was distributed, hard to remove and dead easy to use.
I am quite excited about the promise of Dreamwidth .... but I like the width of your dream better.
Now the real question. How is PHKL warez?
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Date: 2009-05-04 02:48 am (UTC)Posted Dec 10th. The link pointed to still on spdcc, my previous web space by a friend, but the admin of that put a redirect in to exonome's page. Two weeks later I get a mail from from my hoster in terrible english that exonome is obviously hosting warex, just look at the spike in my traffic, please vacate now. They were not to be plied. ON Christmas Eve I was making backups of my site to load somewhere else.
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Date: 2009-05-04 06:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-04 12:28 pm (UTC)