> You are absolutely correct. As far as I can tell, they are completely
> ignoring the subtleties. They have no interest in sorting between
> "good" and "bad" Freenet users -- anyone using P2P is a bad egg in
> their book.
Of course they have no interest in that, since they can't (it is part of
Freenet's defense mechanism). The point is that you are painting yourself
(and us if we went along with you) by saying that unless it is impossible
for someone else to know that you are running a Freenet node, then you
shouldn't run one. My personal belief is that it IS impossible to
guarantee that someone else wouldn't be able to discover that you are
running a Freenet node (and please don't start warbling on about
node-clusters, Scott, myself, and I am sure Oskar if he was awake, all
have serious reservations about it - that should give you the hint that
there might just be a problem with it). It is worth noting that it was
never Freenet's aim to make it impossible for someone to stumble across
the fact that you are running a Freenet node, yet your description of the
situation gives the impression that it was and that there is some kind of
flaw in Freenet because it fails to achieve it.
If you believe that the DMCA effectively makes it illegal to run a Freenet
node - and that there is no way to prevent this from being enforced, then
you have given up before you have begun.
> API> I am very frightened for Freenet because of this technology.
Don't be frightened for Freenet, be frightened for Freedom (oh, and don't
start now, you should have started when the DMCA was passed).
> Join the club. Until I figger out a way to protect myself, my nodes
> are off and I'm not updating Pigdog Journal in Freenet (sorry,
> folks).
Well, if you must be alarmist about it, I can see why you might deactivate
your Freenet node (even though such an action actually helps make the
problem you are so concerned about even worse - since the fewer Freenet
nodes there are out there, the more realistic a proposition it is to take
them all down), but I am rather perplexed as to why you have stopped
updating Pigdog Journal, since you never had anonymity with this anyway!
Ian.
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