gpg: Signature made Tue Aug 28 17:21:37 2007 UTC using DSA key ID E43DA450
gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
There have been a number of proposals for fully distributed virtual worlds. I
suggest you implement one. :) It wouldn't be Freenet - it's a different
problem domain, it does radically different things - but it could be
interesting. I don't have time to fish out the reference right now, but there
was a paper about it a while ago.
On Friday 24 August 2007 20:17, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this feeling that in the near future the powers that be are going
> to regulate second life. Now that is good to get the bad guys out but I
> think second life might have the potential to become a little bit more:
> a place where people can interact more life-like than ever be possible
> using e-mail.
> There are, though, a few problems with it (=2nd life) that I think might
> be solved using freenet.
> - the second life concept in its current incarnation is managed by
> Linden labs. if they decide something should get out (see the
> gambling) or someone is bad, it is/you are gone. I think the
> distributed nature of freenet (if I understand the freenet concept
> correctly that is) can solve this
> - others then you can monitor/filter your chats, your movements, etc
> - others can find out where you physically are by your ip-address
> that way you never can totally decouple yourself from your virtual
> identity
