> At the risk of sounding naive, what prevents Freenet from degenerating
> into a single-server model if someone (e.g. MPAA) decides to set up
> a super-fast, super-large node?  Wouldn't everyone favor this node
> because it's so fast?

Only if that one node was so huge that it could compete with the entire 
rest of the network - which would be a pretty tall order for anyone, 
including the NSA, assuming that Freenet was widely used.

> Is the only defense against this to grow so large that no single
> entity can dominate the network?

Yes, but this isn't as hard as you seem to imply it might be.

Ian.

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