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Don't worry, blocking p2p is the next step and is extremely easy to do.

China has done it already and it's very effective:

* Force every service provider to register their IPs and domains (for CDN use)

* Force every ISP to do stateful firewalling and block every attempt to establish a new connection unless the destination IP is on a whilelist maintained by the government.

Problem solved.



Wifi mesh nets in the city. Sneaker nets in between


Matrix over avian carrier



ants carrying ATM packets


Haha, how many bird roundtrips just to carry the protocol overhead? Might want to use something a bit more efficient...


But ... the Anti Avian Artillery?


Deploy the wifi bats!


I imagining a post-apocolyptic plot... nodes of dense dendridtic clusters consisting of low-range meshes connected to eachother via hijacked defunct, satellite ISPs


Autonomous pirate satellite internet


Men with guns.

Yeah, they can't 100% win. They don't need to. In fact, even if they did 100% win, they'd still find reasons to need to crush some people just to keep people reminded of who has the guns.


The “men with guns” bit cuts both ways, though.


Not in the UK.


I wouldn’t be so sure. Riots don’t require guns to have an effect, as the UK has seen quite recently. Point being: an analysis that draws its conclusion from the presence of state violence is incomplete if it doesn’t also consider violence on the part of citizens/subjects.


High altitude balloon laser net


It’s very effective because people just use (illegal) streaming services instead :-)

Otherwise one can run p2p over VPNs, like for many other things.


Exactly. P2P file sharing only died due to the advent of streaming services.


In ultimate dystopia, invite-only mesh(ish) networking, WAN Parties


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Please don't use this thread to shill a shitcoin that doesn't even remotely attempt to solve the issue being discussed in the thread. Even if the shitcoin itself weren't stupid, it's specifically targeting low-power iot devices, not general internet usage.


I thought I was mocking them, but whatever.


Sorry, I'm too desensitized by earnest shills.




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