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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)."
I hope it has just as much pr0n!!!
Freenet has child porn?!
Wow!
FINALLY I can stop molesting the neighbourhood kids!
Thanks FREENET, for making the world a safer place for children!
It can't be used practically. If you want to upload something important, chances are you'll be found out and shot before it gets on freenet. that is, assuming java doesn't return some error like NullExeptionPointer.
There is another problem, if you don't tell anyone the key, evetually it will just disappear. And since there is no search engine, this is even worse.
It's great for kiddie porn tho, just download the cryroom file.
This is one of the big problems with peer to peer, it cannot be policed effectively, which means that it will always be used for bad things.
Now many people say something along the lines of 'cars can be used to kill people, so should we ban cars then?' which would be a good point were it not utter rubbish. Cars can be used to kill people but their benifits (getting people from A to B, reducing the need for walking, providing employment to millions of loyal americans) far outweighs this prolem. Their cost/benifit analysis is good and in addition there is a well defined way of policing their use.
peer to peer networks on the other hand are used for the following:
1. Distributing pornography (immoral and in many cases a breach of copyright, in addition the lack of policing means that children as young as 3 can see this stuff)
2. Movie/Mp3 sharing (stealing: and don't give me that rubbish about legal MP3s, go do a search on Kazaa for any commercial record and you will get literally thousands of hits)
3.Circumventing goverment restrictions (ok some govermnets put unreasonable restrictions on what their citizens can view but these are few and far between and in many cases these countries are fairly lawless anyway and so need strong tactics to maintain law and order. Most regulations imposed by governments are well thought out, examples including not selling nazi memorabilia or posting instructions as to how to make a dirty bomb. the anonymity provided by p2p is ideal for material such as this to be exchanged)
From this we can see that the cost benefit/analysis of anarchic p2p is simply too low for it to be acceptable. I know this isn't a popular view with the slashdot crowd but if you really want to chare open source software then petition the government to set up a well policed and accountable (i.e. hold the names and addresses of those using the service) centralized service through which people can do this.
Have any of you actually used Freenet ? It's a mass of broken links (or perhaps they would have arrived eventually - I only waited an hour).
More importantly, have any of you clowns actually read the Freenet specifications ? There's no anonymity in it - there's just hiding of the information needed to perform the most direct, trivial attacks. Do you really think a governmental or corporate adversary couldn't do better than that ?
Dude, your an idiot,
" kiddie porn itself is not a crime"
So it's illegal to make, sell, buy and have, but you want to maintain some argument that it itself is not illegal?
"Viewing it however should not be a crime, what right does anyone have to say that you cant view something?"
I believe it's commonly referred to as the 'social contract' which means that we all agree not to kill and maim each other.
"No money is being made, no ones being harmed,"
Nobody is being harmed in the making of kiddie porn?
I'm going to stop now, take you as an ignorant troll and move on. whoever modded you up is an idiot.