[sldev] P2P Web Textures now in demand to enable lossless image downloads to viewer

[Jason Giglio]

Harold Brown wrote:
>  
> Yes the whole "But your IP wouldn't be safe" is a straw-man arguement.  
> People can already get your IP address and tie it to an Avatar now.

I agree 100%.  This argument has already been used to stifle the 
discussion of (non-P2P) web fetched textures with irrelevancies about IP 
address exposure.

Making the privacy of an IP address a priority paralyzes Second Life 
into a centralized paradigm, making Linden Lab something more like a 
horribly inefficient, centralized version of Akamai.

If these "chicken littles" had their way years ago, we wouldn't have 
parcel audio and video streaming, and we wouldn't have a live music 
community.

-Jason