Freenet is free software which lets you
publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of
censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely
decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous.
Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without
decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack. Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are
"routed-through" other no...
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Freenet is free software which lets you
publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of
censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely
decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous.
Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without
decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack.
Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are
"routed-through" other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine
who is requesting the information and what its content is.
Users contribute to the network by giving bandwidth and a portion of
their hard drive (called the "data store") for storing files. Unlike
other peer-to-peer file sharing networks, Freenet does not let the user
control what is stored in the data store. Instead, files are kept or
deleted depending on how popular they are, with the least popular being
discarded to make way for newer or more popular content. Files in the
data store are encrypted to reduce the likelihood of prosecution by
persons wishing to censor Freenet content.
