On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:13:45AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is why I think people who have a interest in Freenet's success
> should be very careful regarding how they use and how they present it's
> reason for being.
The goal of Freenet is anonymous publishing and reading. What use do
law-abiding people have for anonymity? Not much. Not much compared to
the many uses thought-criminals have for anonymity.
There is absolutely no need to be "careful" because the code speaks for
itself. Freenet is a network designed to help criminals evade the
police.
> Imagine further there a lot of such "official" nodes were set up that
> they had very high bandwidth connections and large storage
> capabilities compared to the average abilities of "unofficial" nodes.
> Wouldn't this cripple Freenet's capabilities?
Maybe. Freenet will natually learn that the official nodes are bad
places to look for the data that they refuse to serve, since they
obviously didn't find it very well. But if there were many of these
"honest cancer" nodes, and they were very good at answering the bulk of
requests, they could probably take over the network.
--
"Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are
counted but a laughing-stock; and so far from such laws restraining the
appetites and lusts of mankind, they rather heighten them." --Spinoza
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