Author: toad Date: 2008-03-19 12:47:05 +0000 (Wed, 19 Mar 2008) New Revision: 18576
Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php Log: Delete permanent section Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php 2008-03-19 12:46:17 UTC (rev 18575) +++ trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php 2008-03-19 12:47:05 UTC (rev 18576) @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ </li><li><a href="#leech">I don't have to donate anything when using filesharing application X and I get to leech more.</a> </li><li><a href="#donate-more-bw">All my friends donate very little space and bandwidth. Why should I donate more?</a> </li><li><a href="#donate-lot">If I donate a lot will my experience improve significantly?</a> -</li><li><a href="#permanent">What do I get from running a permanent node?</a> </li><li><a href="#legal">Is Freenet legal?</a> </li><li><a href="#trouble">Can I get trouble if I run a node?</a> </li><li><a href="#copyright">What about copyright?</a> @@ -112,22 +111,6 @@ improvement we need more people to start thinking like you. Bandwidth counts more than diskspace.</p> -<p><b id="permanent">What do I get from running a permanent node?</b><br> -Don't be frightened from the word permanent. It doesn't mean that once you start your node you're hooked to freenet -for life. And once you see how much better it is to run a permanent -node, you will likely not want to switch back to transient. Your node -will connect itself better to the rest of the network, so requesting -keys will be faster. Since you will be getting a lot of traffic it is -likely that the newly stored material will be closer to you (or even on -your very own node) and you will have faster access to the newest -editions of the freesites or the latest uploads in Frost. Without permanent -nodes, there is no network to request from. By running a permanent node you are -helping the network.<br>Perhaps more importantly, running a permanent node improves -your anonymity. Since all requests coming from a transient node originate on that node, -the node you're connecting to is guaranteed that the request came from you. A permanent -node forwards requests for other nodes too, so the node you connect to can never be sure -if it was actually you requesting or inserting the data in question.</p> - <p><b id="legal">Is Freenet legal?</b><br> If by legal you mean not illegal, then yes it is. Of course, anything can be found to be illegal at some point in the future, and
