kaal:claim:3808859-011

Distributed routing makes a peer-to-peer network resistant to shutdown: BitTorrent could not be taken down even when authorities shut down specific servers, because nodes could update their own routing tables indefinitely.

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Even if government authorities shut down specific servers, the BitTorrent network could not be shut down because nodes could update their own routing tables indefinitely.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021), II.6 Peer-to-Peer Networking, p. 18
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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applies to networks that removed central indexing servers

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