Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing

mids writes "With version 0.5.1, Freenet isn't only the most secure & anonymous P2P network, but also getting pretty fast! Reliable downloading of files as large as 700MB from Freenet at average download rates as high as 100k/sec on a broadband internet connection are sighted (which compares quite favorably to more conventional P2P applications)."

Comments

Re:What's the life expectancy of Freenet?

[GigsVT]

I tried to install freenet, but it was written in Java, and hence was total crap and wouldn't even run. Something about a CLASSPATH that would have taken me hours to research and fix. I just ran something else instead.

Re:How does this compare to Edonkey/Emule?

[Espectr0]

So, they store the files on the server?
How dumb. That killed napster, you know?

Yelling fire can cause people to get hurt

[HanzoSan]

Its not freedom of speech when someone gets hurt.

No one gets hurt when you share child porn, because no ones buying or selling the child porn, no ones making money off of it, no ones being hurt, what you have here are a bunch of people who view censored materials which are censored for what reason? To keep the demand for child porn nice and high so the pedophiles can continue to make money selling it? Its like the drug trade,

When you make something hard to find you end up making it far more valueable, people kill for it, spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on it, and guys who create it now have incentive to create it, making child porn can make you a millionsare!

This is not what we want, why should we allow them to make money?

Inciting riots and advocating murder are one thing, viewing child porn is not advocating it, buying it is advocating it.

So would you rather they but it and support the industry, or view it and kill the industry?

Exactly

[HanzoSan]

Laws should be created to PROTECT people from each other.

Censoring Kiddie Porn from freenet will actually harm more kids than it will help. The more porn people can get for free the less porn they will pay for, no one really feels good about buying porn, no ones going to be like "hey this porn is good, let me go pay the creator of this" no, people take porn and only pay for it when they are desperate.

It makes plenty of since to go after porn sites on the web because they SELL kiddie porn, someones earning money to abuse kids and then selling the photos and movies, this SHOULD be illegal because someone is being harmed for cash.

Now, if these pictures are stolen from the site and placed on freenet and all over the P2Ps and people download and view it without payinng a dime, who is this hurting? The producer of the porn is the one losing money here, so why should we attack people who share porn for free? So the guy who makes the porn can continue to force people to buy it?

I dont get it.

If someone distributes music, record companies can say artists arent making money blah blah blah, they at least have some kinda arguement, artists do deserve to be paid.

But when its kiddie porn you cannot use that same arguement, if people are on kazaa sharing it, SOME guy who created that porn is making less money than they would have made,

This doesnt just go for kiddie porn but the whole porn industry, the more people who share porn for free, the less money made on it, the more the industry suffers, and then less porn is created.

The more you restrict porn, the more demand you create, and the more expensive it gets, and with this price being high, it causes whoevers making it to make more money.

So as far as the porn industry goes, you arent going to somehow rid the world of pedophiles, these people will always exist, the best you can do is remove their ability to make money off of it.