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Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gonna-get-scary dept.

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)."

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  1. Dont you mean boycott America by thornfield · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One of the reasons most people hate Americans so much is their assumption that everyone else on the internet / who speaks english, is American. Well, sonny, Slashdot is a global community, and in case you hadn't noticed, the US is pretty much the only country where anything like a majority backs attacking Iraq now. Who sold Saddam the anthrax in the first place? Who funded, armed and trained Bin Laden? and Noriega,....

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  2. Re:Why can't our politicians be this elegant? by tree_frog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you have a link to Dominique de Villepin's recent speeches at the UN?

    regards, treefrog

  3. Obligatory... by merlin_jim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, net frees YOU!

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    I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
  4. What about Instant Messaging w/no Central Control? by Shwag · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Freenet, a system for free exchange of information without centralized control, is great. But isn't it time someone did this for Instant Messaging?

    This is important. Mod this up.