As I understood in P2P networks data is shared in small pieces. The idea is now to not save data on a hard disk bur rather via P2P and let it float in a bittorrent network or something similar. This only works if the client is able to decrypt this data or if he wants to share some data also do that wirh providing some missing data. This would mean that the clients in a network would all 'drink' more or less the same data soup but only picking that from the stream that they want to use.

The fundamental idea is to be able to "save" data without the need of hardware or a location to store data to - only write and access data with keys from a stream. this could be the ultimate solution for endless space if some problems are solved:

Problems:

• Huge data would not be accessible immediately. So this is something that would best work with small pieces of text (like chat over bittorrent)

Network:

• I guess bittorrent is not the best protocol for this.

-- ThiloPfennig 2007-08-12 14:03:26