Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums  
 Latest news     Press releases     Search news     Submit news     Our RSS newsfeed     Advertise at AfterDawn.com
Friday 5.12.2008 / 01:34 AM
Search:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > news > change from internet to freenet
Show topics
News
News

Change from Internet to Freenet

26 April 2000 19:13 by Petteri "dRD" Pyyny | 3 comments

London programmer Ian Clarke and rapidly growing bunch of volunteers are working to develop a way to change Internet into "Freenet", a network that works a little bit like Gnutella's main idea -- to make Internet more flexible by creating "mini networks" between people and to secure all connections, file transfers, etc and to keep total anonymity for users. Basically Freenet changes regular users machine from "dumb client" into small host.

This may be the key that finally puts record industry, BSA, MPAA and other copyright authorities against the wall. By letting people to keep total anonymity, to allow content distribution over secure connections without any centralized ports, it basically makes impossible for copyright owners and ISPs to block illegal distribution of software, music, etc..

But in other hand -- it provides safe way to communicate without fear of loss of privacy, etc..

Permalink to this article

Get AfterDawn's news to your favourite feed reader! Share this story with your friends!
 
« Previous news article
Jaws About to Strike on DVD 		Next news article »
Offspring supports Napster
 Post your comment
Discuss this article! 
samintx (Member) 13 October 2007 1:10 Send private message to this user   
The titles don't jib with the articles when you click to view them.. This article was labeled Netflix users.... and another article labeled Woman pays her own fine turned up with stats on BitTOrrent. Am I nutz?
[ + quote]
nopcbs (Newbie) 13 October 2007 1:49 Send private message to this user   
No, someone screwed up at After Dawn. Annoying, no?
[ + quote]
tigerelf (Newbie) 13 October 2007 9:02 Send private message to this user   
Yup! certainly is.
x
[ + quote]
 Post your comment
 

Subscribe to our newsfeed

Get the latest headlines delivered directly to your favourite RSS reader or content aggregation service by using the links below.

AfterDawn.com: News - RSS feed
Add to Google
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to MyMSN

Latest news

RSS Feed

Latest news from AfterDawn.com.

More news...

Search for headlines

Search through our news archive.

Latest threads

Recently updated
discussion threads.
 

More...

Last week's most popular software downloads

Most popular devices

Last week's most popular products in our product comparison service.

More products...

Latest software updates

RSS Feed

More software updates...

Top links

Most popular links

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums | DVD X Copy Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | download.fi | fin.MP3Lizard.com
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2008 by AfterDawn Ltd.