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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

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News

9th April 2002, Mandatory Upgrade

In an effort to resolve a recent regression in network performance caused by our attempt to improve load-balancing, today's snapshot is a mandatory upgrade. This means that nodes downloaded from now on will not talk to older nodes. If you downloaded a copy of Freenet before today please upgrade immediately. We try to keep mandatory upgrades to a mimimum but they are occasionally necessary.

2nd April 2002, State of Freenet #4

Ian has just finished the State of Freenet 4, in which he gives an overview of recent developments.


Background

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 creating secure namespaces. For more information please read this paper on the Freenet architecture.


Media enquiries

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