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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

Get Freenet

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

News

29th January 2002

Note: If your node is older than 23th January (or so) you really should upgrade your freenet.jar as you won't be able to talk to recent nodes otherwise (Quite a few bugs have been fixed since then as well).

19th January 2002, New Windows installer

Sebastian Spaeth has released a Windows installer which will automatically download the latest version of Freenet, meaning that Windows users can now keep up to date with daily snapshots more conveniently. You can find it here. Please send feedback directly to Sebastian.

19th January 2002, Progress report

Time for another progress report. Highlights are that a data corruption bug which was causing serious problems has been fixed, everyone should upgrade.

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 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.