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Freenet 0.5.2 Released
FurbyXL writes "With the RIAA roaring to grab peer-to-peer users by their IP addresses, Freenet - fully anonymized production and consumption of content - is gaining renewed attention. Articles in New Scientist, ZDNet UK, Wired and CNET (and here) set a somewhat typical context for Freenets major release 0.52. Significant performance improvements through NIO-based messaging, probabilistic caching etc. should provide increased rest to Chinese dissidents, but may finally wake-up the RIAA's Matt Oppenheim..." The announcement on the Freenet home page lists several improvements found in the new version: "a new NIO technology that brings improved performance using less CPU and system resources," "Individual nodes are now more efficient," "the speed and routing of the entire network have significantly improved," probabilistic caching, user interface improvements, and more.
Faster kiddy pr0n for all!
Now with Anonymity, for her pleasure!
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I don't think I'm very happy. I always fall asleep to the sound of my own screams.
Buffer overflows are a big problem. 'nuff said...
Unless Slashdot aims to become a crappy joke site, that is.
It's just too easy to toss out a quick comic jape, compared to writing an intelligent comment on TFA.
Firstly, child pornography is not speech. It is not expression. It is not even worthwhile or helpful. It is proof of exploitation, or in the case of virtual child porn, enticement to commit exploitation. Children probably don't know why they're being forced to do things they don't understand, or if they do, they aren't capable of resisting because they are physically weak.
Just admit it: you're a sick person, and you need help.
A solution to the problem with music today
+5, Interesting. No proof, no examples. In fact, his only number mentioned is an unverified stat of a very weak metric ( lines of code ). What does he consider a bug?
We are suppose to pour over open irc network logs to check out that assertion? Heck, we don't even read linked articles half the time.
By the way, NIO was introduced in 1.4, IIRC, and is still relatively *new*. Did someone hold a gun to their heads and have them use NIO, ie. Why rush to NIO?
Based on upvotes, Ageism is the only "-ism" Slashdotters care about and think isn't SJW
Now why did you need to begin your comment by insulting me? Did I say anywhere that every node was going to handle traffic for 1 download? No, I did not. I was pointing out that since the RIAA doesn't know who is supplying the copyrighted content, they could go after everyone involved with the system since, at some level, they are facilitating the distribution of copyrighted material. IANAL and so I was asking about the legality of it. I feel that you did not need to insult me with the very first sentence of your post and so, this will be my only reply to you. Try to be a bit more civil in your discourse for the future.
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I did not conclude that anyone using Freenet could be sued - I brought it up as a possibility. As the student at RPI who created the search engine learned, you don't have to be blatantly violating copyright in order to get sued by the RIAA. So how is this a stretch? I offer you an example of someone getting sued (or at least the threat of one) without violating copyright.
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There's a huge difference between concluding that people can be sued and raising a question about whether people are going to be sued. Hopefully you can see the difference. Since I am being modded down by one of your lackeys at this point, I retire.
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