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On Monday 14 January 2002 12:16, you wrote:
> I have a few questions that I have not been able to answer after reading
> much of the info on the freenet site.
>
> -Does freenet support multisource uploads/downloads?
>
> -The files that are mirrored, can they be partial files? IE, so if there is
> a 700MB file can peices of it be shared on multiple nodes or does one node
> have to provide all 700MB?
The two questions above are actualy the same, or at least closely linked. By
splitting the file into peices (which some of the latest clients do), you are
automaticaly downloading from mutliple sources.
> -Is there a reason that users cannot choose to share a portion of their HD
> that contains files but is unencryped?
Yes, deniability. You can go in front of a judge and honestly say you had no
clue weather the bits on your hard drive represented GJ's freesite or a
Divx'd copy of The Matrix.
> Of course each users should still
> have to provide some min amount of cache space as well, but if the network
> did not know the difference it would still provide much of the same
> security while encouraging users to share more space. In addition if I want
> to share something and I am not worried about the content I could keep it
> on my computer and not have to worry about it being lost from the network
> if I dont refresh it.
I assume from your name that you use Gnutella. I warn you not to think about
Freenet in the same way you think about Gnutella or Napster or Kazaa or
anything else that falls under the P2P buzzword. Freenet works a lot
differently from the others.
- --
I have also been a huge Unix fan every since I realized that SCO was not Unix.
--Dennis Baker
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