I too, am doing a final project on Freenet for my Intellectual Property and Digital Media course. Specifically, I want to look into the following question:
"Can Freenet succeed in protecting itself from the inevitable onslaught of litigation from copyright holders -- and, more broadly, are the solutions for the digital copyright crisis to be found in technology rather than legislatures and courts?"
Personally, I think if there are recipes floating around for something U. Sam would not like people knowing, it could be made illegal and enforced through paroling spiders readily provided by M$ or something similar. Course, I wouldn't want Freenet (as a manifesting digital reality) to be responsible for bringing on this total invasion of privacy...
What's the general response within the Freenet development group to simply illegalizing Freenet and any other anonymous distributed networks? Sad it would be, but I don't think big guys mess around when it comes to national security.
Are there any law bums out there who see this more clearly than I? given the recent Napster rulings, etc?
I'd like to think the software can keep itself alive; are we really believing this possible?
Hans
