Hi! I have a delicate question. Let me start by saying that I host a freenet node AND will continue to do so no matter what the answer is.
We are designing an open source (X11 licensed) distributed content system that will allow people to create a shared multilingual dictionary with multimedia content. Some first details of how the system works are published here: http://vademecum.i-iter.org/content/ambaradan-owm2-storage-engine Anyway, it is not necessary to read all the tech blabla to evaluate my request. My problem is the following: we want to use Freenet as a network transport and distributed storage for multimedia files. This would save us the fuss of developing very complex software and would give us exactly what we need. BUT... there is one big but. Many of the financial and starting hosting partners are institutions. Many project directors would personally have nothing to object, but I suppose it is very clear to everyone what would happen if just ONE paper starts to say that we host child porn on university machines. My question is: can a darknet (thus non-communicating with any openNet Freenet node) make sure that this darknet's nodes will host only content they receive from each other and nothing at all from openNet Freenet? Should this be possible we would obviously give the largest public exposition to the fact that we run based on Freenet. The net will start as a very small thing, but once in beta can quickly grow to thousands of nodes. And here I have another question... if I am a member of ONE darknet, can I be a member of others, too? And can I also be a member of OpenNet? The general goal would be to allow single users maximum control. University servers will be guaranteed that they do not host anything apart from material related to the project, we could have insulated "regions" (actually subnets) and any node could choose to be a member of a number of them, and any user could still choose to be a member of OpenNet. And all this with ONE software install. It seems simply too good to be true, but on the other end, on quickly reading the docs this is exactly the impression I had. Am I right? Thansk in advance Berto -- ============================== Constitution du 24 juin 1793 - Article 35. - Quand le gouvernement viole les droits du peuple, l'insurrection est, pour le peuple et pour chaque portion du peuple, le plus sacr? des droits et le plus indispensable des devoirs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20090309/53367b59/attachment.html>
