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

Terrorism

[sokkelih]

This allows fast and anonymous terrorism! ;) (Check out that Microsoft Says piracy is Terrorism -thingie.)

Re:Terrorism

[Anonymous Coward]

This allows fast and anonymous terrorism! ;) (Check out that Microsoft Says piracy is Terrorism -thingie.)

Jokes that require footnotes aren't funny (1)

(1) we treat the parenthesised portion of the parent as a footnote, though technically it's an aside (2).

(2) labouring the point isn't funny either.

Slashdotted, heh.

[DarklordJonnyDigital]

File sharing clients don't get Slashdotted... they just give an error saying "More download sources required".

Re:[OT] Re:The REALLY nice thing about freenet

[arvindn]

What the hell is the point in defining an acronym, and then never using it in the rest of your text? Why even bother doing it? It's completely pointless, and really annoying. Stop it for fuck sake.

TIAFC,AICDATAIW (This Is A Free Country, And I Can Define All The Acronyms I Want).

Ha!

It is faster

[CaptainAx]

I'm getting 40 Mbit/sec to someone at 127.0.0.1...

Re:What Freenet is

[harmless_mammal]

If you think we don't need an anonymous publishing methods then, clearly, you haven't tried driving across Texas with a "I support gun control and gay rights" bumper sticker on your car. Publicly advocating unpopular ideas, even if you're right, can get you killed.

And the software is idiot proof?

[dark-br]

Make an idiot proof software and they will make a better idiot.

Re:The problem now is, it needs sites like slashdo

[ReelOddeeo]

Freenet shouldnt be just about porn and warez because it will be very easy to outlaw it, what we need to do is fill freenet up with useful content for the masses....

Yeah. Not just for warez and porn. Freenet needs mp3's!

Re:Unlike other people, I tried this....

[karlm]

More strictly speaking, the document also gets cached on all of the nodes on the return search path. If you're the secret police of Farkistan trying to find who has embarassing videos of human rights violations, you end up spreading those embarassing videos all over the net. "Of course it's on my hard drive, you put it there by the shear act of looking for it, genius."