Where’s Pablo Soto?

[SlyckTom]

Asking “where’s Pablo” these days isn’t terribly different from asking, “Where’s Waldo?” The seemingly elusive P2P programmer, who shot into file-sharing stardom for his work on Blubster and Piolet (Manolito P2P), has appeared quiet lately.

Yet this doesn’t mean Pablo hasn’t been busy. In addition to fixing the connectivity issues with the Manolito P2P network, Pablo is taking a more forward looking approach to his next project. Named “<a href=http://www.omemo.com/ target=_blank>Omemo</a>” (Ownership Masquerading Explorable Metadata Overlay), he and his consortium of programmers are working feverishly to establish the next great leap forward in file-sharing technology.

The next project for the Manolito group utilizes the traditional “search” and “storage” philosophy of current P2P networks; however Omemo is significantly different as it will create a virtual hard drive among peers. Like any storage medium, the end user can save his or her file, however the file will be stored in cyberspace rather than the individual’s hard drive. If the network were to reach its full potential, the end user would experience a near limitless supply of storage space – as well as a near limitless supply of information.

“…most commercial vendors of P2P technology have failed to detect the real needs of end users,” Omemo’s homepage reads. “We intend to fill the gap, creating a distributed storage network that is fast, scalable and anonymous, allowing users to not only search-download from it, but also storing their files persistently on this virtual drive, and organizing its contents in folders.”

Each user dedicates a certain disk space percentage to the network and contributes to the virtual hard drive community. If the Manolito faithful can be converted over to this new project, it may spark enough curiosity to make this an interesting step forward for the file-sharing community.

[Fartingbob]

A nice idea, creating a uber decetnralised virtul HDD, but how secure will it be, and will it mean more efficient, faster downloads, or just another way to code with the same end result?

[qm2003]

Sounds like mambo jumbo marketing bullshit to me.


Maybe i change my mind when Pablo delivers something.

Someday,
far, far away
in the future ...

[Ne007]

"Each user dedicates a certain disk space percentage to the network and contributes to the virtual hard drive community."

So basically you are storing information of which you know nothing about. That is scary...kinda reminds me of freenet's concept, except this is designed for file transfer.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can get into trouble for storing illegal information...even if you didn't know you had it.

This is why I proposed in the past that someone design a viral program that hid itself on computers; a program that turned a computer into a zombie for P2P storage and distribution on installation. Of course this program would be locatable and controllable to those who know where it is.

Just the existence of a program such as this would give every P2Per plausible deniability that they did not know that they were sharing.

[klondike]

This is why I proposed in the past that someone design a viral program that hid itself on computers; a program that turned a computer into a zombie for P2P storage and distribution on installation. Of course this program would be locatable and controllable to those who know where it is.

Just the existence of a program such as this would give every P2Per plausible deniability that they did not know that they were sharing.

Even if such a virus existed on your system you still need to access the p2p data downloaded by it and send instructions to it to download a file..how do you prove plausible deniability then?

[sonnentier]

As said, this Omemo reminds me a lot of Freenet.

I hope it will not be as slow and not being able to find data now and then. The same for storing - everytime you talk about p2p storage, you feel guilty because the unknown data doesn't just get round the internet or is stored on some server, but it's travelling to and from you, stored on your disc.
You are also better motivated if you know that you upload your stuff and not anything

[ccjx]

Curiously, how will this work out? I mean, if everyone shares 1GB and uses 2, how can the network be sustained?

[Ne007]

This is why I proposed in the past that someone design a viral program that hid itself on computers; a program that turned a computer into a zombie for P2P storage and distribution on installation. Of course this program would be locatable and controllable to those who know where it is.

Just the existence of a program such as this would give every P2Per plausible deniability that they did not know that they were sharing.

Even if such a virus existed on your system you still need to access the p2p data downloaded by it and send instructions to it to download a file..how do you prove plausible deniability then?

I would say that my computer was infected and someone else had control of my computer - they were making me download and upload....which would be possible on the default settings.

[gubatron]

I say they better hurry up before google announces the GDrive.

Check out mybloop.com, there's a race to offer network drives, be it through p2p, or with centralized hosting, or with hybrid models.