The NPEs are probably caused by you using Java 1.4.2-r04.:). But anyway, how can I fix them if you don't report them to support@freenetproject.org? Please mail me privately and we'll sort it out.
There is no technical reason why we shouldn't have a search engine. It would have to involve spidering, that's all. And in terms of general purpose file-sharing, Frost IS searchable.
It's impossible. If an authority can declare a file illegal, it will be abused. We cannot make the system safe for chinese dissidents publishing files that happen to be illegal locally (most political or religious texts, for example), while being able to censor it in the West.
The Windows version auto-updates. Unix users are generally clueful enough to upgrade, or at least to go to the IRC channel and ask why it isn't working, and be told to upgrade. And we have not released any official releases for a while, because there was not a point at which it would have been sensible to do so. Our last major release got MAJOR press coverage resulting in the network being effectively DoSed for weeks! Oh and as regards respectable, we have a LOT of content, the overwhelming majority of what is on the main portals, which is not such filth; last I checked 12 out of 440 URLs on TFE were probably child porn judging by the titles.
Because it does a different thing. It provides anonymous uncensorable file transfer with a single namespace (unsearchable, but can host web pages, usenet style boards, searchable filesharing boards, etc). Anyway nobody is forcing you to pay for Freenet's ongoing development, even if you choose to use it. For example I would not expect our Chinese friends to pay us anything.
Uh, no, we ARE taking a stand here. If you can't see it, that's your problem. The bottom line is if the government or anyone else can force the removal of relatively popular files relating to any of these things, they can also force the removal of files relating to anything else. Furthermore, a variant of Freenet 0.5 is used in China by dissidents; all manner of political speech is illegal there, including for example such dangerous works as the Bible.
Eh? What makes you think it provides a false sense of anonymity? Unless you post from a transient node, establishing whether your node was ultimately responsible for an insert or request is very hard. It's not entirely impossible if you are inserting a large site or a large splitfile, but it is hard, probabilistic, and we plan to deal with that vulnerability in the mid term future. Furthermore for single files it is afaics pretty safe, unless the attacker for example compromizes a large fraction of the nodes on the network.
Lets get the java implementation to "production quality" standards first. I'm not saying it doesn't work, but it's not working as well as it has occasionally done in the past. A P350 should be able to run a node, it will be more able to run a node after some code (improving rate limiting) I've been working on/testing recently has been merged over to stable. However if you have less than 256MB of RAM, it's not clear that you'll be able to reliably run a node at the present time; we WILL hopefully improve on this, but maybe not immediately.
Both. Sorry, somebody misinterpreted what we intended to say:). UNSTABLE is working pretty well, but is still being worked on. Unstable is a much smaller network, so it's easy to make it work well. Stable is not yet working "well", although it MAY have improved a bit recently; it may work better in the near future, as we get rate limiting sorted out. It is not CURRENTLY sorted out, it is in the process of being sorted out. I should know, I'm the project's one and only paid employee.
The article is grossly inaccurate. I am reliably informed that it was, prior to the new legislation, illegal to rip CDs for personal use, convert your LP collection to CD, and certainly illegal to upload or download copyrighted songs to/from grokster et al. The anti-circumvention stuff is the new thing here. And the UK has had a shadow of that for 10 years, unfortunately - but it was quite limited.
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The NPEs are probably caused by you using Java 1.4.2-r04. :). But anyway, how can I fix them if you don't report them to support@freenetproject.org? Please mail me privately and we'll sort it out.
There is no technical reason why we shouldn't have a search engine. It would have to involve spidering, that's all. And in terms of general purpose file-sharing, Frost IS searchable.
Remember Autonomy? They were using IPv12... whose main purpose was to make surveillance and censorship easier.
It's impossible. If an authority can declare a file illegal, it will be abused. We cannot make the system safe for chinese dissidents publishing files that happen to be illegal locally (most political or religious texts, for example), while being able to censor it in the West.
The Windows version auto-updates. Unix users are generally clueful enough to upgrade, or at least to go to the IRC channel and ask why it isn't working, and be told to upgrade. And we have not released any official releases for a while, because there was not a point at which it would have been sensible to do so. Our last major release got MAJOR press coverage resulting in the network being effectively DoSed for weeks! Oh and as regards respectable, we have a LOT of content, the overwhelming majority of what is on the main portals, which is not such filth; last I checked 12 out of 440 URLs on TFE were probably child porn judging by the titles.
Because it does a different thing. It provides anonymous uncensorable file transfer with a single namespace (unsearchable, but can host web pages, usenet style boards, searchable filesharing boards, etc). Anyway nobody is forcing you to pay for Freenet's ongoing development, even if you choose to use it. For example I would not expect our Chinese friends to pay us anything.
Uh, no, we ARE taking a stand here. If you can't see it, that's your problem. The bottom line is if the government or anyone else can force the removal of relatively popular files relating to any of these things, they can also force the removal of files relating to anything else. Furthermore, a variant of Freenet 0.5 is used in China by dissidents; all manner of political speech is illegal there, including for example such dangerous works as the Bible.
Eh? What makes you think it provides a false sense of anonymity? Unless you post from a transient node, establishing whether your node was ultimately responsible for an insert or request is very hard. It's not entirely impossible if you are inserting a large site or a large splitfile, but it is hard, probabilistic, and we plan to deal with that vulnerability in the mid term future. Furthermore for single files it is afaics pretty safe, unless the attacker for example compromizes a large fraction of the nodes on the network.
Lets get the java implementation to "production quality" standards first. I'm not saying it doesn't work, but it's not working as well as it has occasionally done in the past. A P350 should be able to run a node, it will be more able to run a node after some code (improving rate limiting) I've been working on/testing recently has been merged over to stable. However if you have less than 256MB of RAM, it's not clear that you'll be able to reliably run a node at the present time; we WILL hopefully improve on this, but maybe not immediately.
Both. Sorry, somebody misinterpreted what we intended to say :). UNSTABLE is working pretty well, but is still being worked on. Unstable is a much smaller network, so it's easy to make it work well. Stable is not yet working "well", although it MAY have improved a bit recently; it may work better in the near future, as we get rate limiting sorted out. It is not CURRENTLY sorted out, it is in the process of being sorted out. I should know, I'm the project's one and only paid employee.
The article is grossly inaccurate. I am reliably informed that it was, prior to the new legislation, illegal to rip CDs for personal use, convert your LP collection to CD, and certainly illegal to upload or download copyrighted songs to/from grokster et al. The anti-circumvention stuff is the new thing here. And the UK has had a shadow of that for 10 years, unfortunately - but it was quite limited.
That is unfortunately one of the many problems sourceforge has been having recently. We have moved the link, it will work now.