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Freenet is a relatively new P2P project in which members act similar to that of a cluster, donating hard drive space and bandwidth. It is similar to the Tor network in the fact that connections are encrypted and re-routed through other members of the network.
What’s different about Freenet is that you also dedicate parts of your hard drive for file storage. What is even more interesting is that you have no control over what is stored in your ‘data store’. Less popular files are deleted to make room for more popular files. The files are encrypted so that you ‘might’ not be held responsible for what lies within your data store.
Freenet is not only for storing files, but also allows you to create Freenet websites called ‘Freesites’. Also usenet, email, and more is possible on the Freenet.
Freenet is open source and runs anywhere Java runs. Windows, Linux, or Mac should work fine. After installing the interface is accessible through a web browser. Remember, Freenet is still in alpha stage so there may be some bugs.
Read more and download at the Free Network Project website.
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Tags: Anonymous, Download, Freenet, Linux, Mac, Networking, Open source, P2P, Security, Windows
January 31st, 2008 at 10:57 am
Not to be picky, but Freenet it is not relatively new, it is older than, say, BitTorrent.
Take a look at this article from O’Reilly (when they were pushing P2P in the early 2000’s)
What’s on Freenet?
January 31st, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Interesting. First time I heard about it today. :)
Thanks for the tip Hictio.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:17 am
G’Day Shane,
Yeah, Freenet has been around a long time however I never had the opportunity to use it cause of my antique computers and slow bandwidth. I should go give it a whirl now. Thanks for jogging the memory!
cheers
dale