[philipashlock]

I know this is an alpha release, but it's invitation only with the invitation being "help us shape the future of our network"

All of which comes across as being much less open and decentralized than the current web.

Even if the technology itself is more distributed than the common standards we're all using now, this sounds more like a walled garden than a truly open network.

AOL with Tor. Yay.

[WayneS]

Yes is it all closed. Look at bittorrent-sync. Totally cool, but closed and controlled. I don't see that working here, other than being used for porn and piracy.

[j_s]

  > AOL with Tor. Yay.

I checked but I could not find any mention of Tor; could you explain why you threw that into the mix?

[thisisrobv]

The BitTorrent protocol will remain open. This is a private alpha release of a version of it that is more focused on web content. - Project Maelstrom team member.