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On Tuesday 04 June 2002 19:33, Revenant wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> > Let's start with this: Freenet is an anonymous, decentralized data
> > storage and retrieval system. The physical resources are provided by
> > volunteer nodes around the world. Data (content) may be inserted
> > into Freenet by anybody. Tracking the source of data insertions is
> > possible, but difficult; and *proving* that you were the source of a
> > data insertion might well be impossible in a fair court of law. Data
> > requests are likewise anonymous.
>
> I tend to describe freenet as a peer-to-peer alternative to the world
> wide web. (I stay the hell away from the term "file sharing" because
> it's such a loaded term, and barely touches on what freenet is anyway).
One of the worst things you can do is compare Freenet to the web or file
sharing protocols.
Freenet is basicly a routing protocol that sits over TCP/IP (though other
transport/network layers are possible). While IP routes to a specific
machine, Freenet routes to a specific peice of data.
- --
I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck.
--Rob Pike, on X.
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