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"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Introduction

Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown. Freenet is also efficient in how it deals with information, adaptively replicating content in response to demand. We have and continue to pioneer innovative new ideas such as the application of emergent behavior to computer communication, and public-key cryptography to providing security without reliance on a central authority. For more information please read this paper on the Freenet architecture.


Media enquiries

Any press enquiries about Freenet should be directed to Ian Clarke.

Get Freenet

Click here to download the latest 0.4 release for Windows, Linux, and Apple Macintosh.

News

31st December 2001, Translators sought

The Freenet project is seeking people who can translate the website into other languages. See Translations for a list of languages for which translations currently exist or are in-progress. If your language is not there email web@freenetproject.org .

28th December 2001, New website goes live

Welcome to the new Freenet website! In addition to the obvious cosmetic improvements, this website is now based on TWiki, a system which makes it much easier for people to contribute towards the information on this site. If you are interested in helping out, you should email web@freenetproject.org to gain access. Any suggestions or bug reports should also be directed to that email address.