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Fracturing P2P Networks
A reader writes: "If you run Freenet and have noticed that you practically can't access anything on the network, you are not alone; a group of Freenet users has organized a Freenet Revolt by forming a separate network running an old, proven build of Freenet, and things have been heating up on the freenet-devel mailing list with a scary declaration by project leader Ian Clarke that Freenet is a research project and has always been, which scared some list members, since Freenet has been actively promoted as a production network and has a sensitive userbase, including Chinese dissidents. Some people are already moving to similar networks like GNUnet and Entropy. " Of course, that does sound different then what has been said before.
Perhaps if it were anything other than a research project, Mr Clarke might be classified as a terrorist.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
Freenet would be the anemia (sp?) of the command-and-control society
Who could just eat their spinich and feel much better.
Damn, if only Bill Gates and John Ashcroft hadn't watched so much Popeye as kids we might have had them.
KFG
Oh, and that heterosexual couple darn-well better be married and do it with the lights off, too. We're a Christian nation, didn't you hear?
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Of course they are...a bunch of unbathen geeks downloading pr0n. What did you expect?
[Laugh, that was funny]
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Screw the desert...all you need is a girlfriend who loves to borrow your music. Talk about hostile conditions...
"I strongly urge both the faint of heart and the faint of butt to leave the room at this time."
- Strong Bad
(Cue music)
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Ian Clarke, Ian Clarke, riding through the land. .
"Blimey, this redistribution of free information is trickier than I thought."
Look, you take a few million rugged individualists the try to throw one blanket over them this sort of thing is bound to happen. An acquiantence of mine once complained that they couldn't get people who were Libertarians to register as party members.
Well duh!
Parties aren't part of the Constitutional structure of America. Why would a real Libertarian join one?
The very concept is a bit like the proverbial procrastinators meeting or herd of cats.
This was bound to happen. It's also bound to blow over. Maybe it'll even result in some "genetic annealing" of the net.
KFG
>> something like Freenet would be the anemia (sp?) of the command-and-control society companies are pushing us towards.
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> I think the word you're looking for is "anathema".
Or possibly "enema".
One can argue that society needs it more than the suggested aternative.
well, that'd surely help the video compression a lot, what with all those black frames. ;)
Nathan