Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet

Freenet

Freenet (www.freenetproject.org) is defined as an open, democratic content storage-and-retrieval system that cannot be controlled by anyone, not even its creators. Called a “ censorship-proof” network, by design no one can know the location of a specific piece of information. Consequently, no person or operator can be held accountable for storage of any particular piece of content.

Originally conceived by Ian Clarke as an information publication system similar to the World Wide Web, the Freenet Protocol ( FNP) improves on the Web server model by its inherent characteristics of content being distributed, decentralized, and encrypted. Its self-organizing behavior automatically replicates and moves information nearer to points of high demand, ...