Is p2p webhosting a solution for e.g. wikileaks?

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The whole wikileaks hosting problem got me thinking, couldn't we make a some sort of P2P webhosting system for websites like these? Basically unbreakable. No dedicated servers that can be taken offline. The website would take its resources from user's PC's.

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Do you mean like FreeNet?

Or like http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bryan-metalinkhttp-17

"This document specifies Metalink/HTTP: Mirrors and Cryptographic Hashes in HTTP Headers, a different way to get information that is usually contained in the Metalink XML-based download description format. Metalink/HTTP describes multiple download locations (mirrors), Peer-to-Peer, cryptographic hashes, digital signatures, and other information using existing standards for HTTP headers. Clients can transparently use this information to make file transfers more robust and reliable."

At first glance, yes! I'll dive into this.

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