A test version of the ‘darknet’ software was made available on a Freenet Project website early Wednesday and a refined edition could soon (late 2005) be ready ‘for general consumption,’ Ian Clarke of Freenet told AFP. Freenet’s user-cloaking software was tested by about 2,000 members of Orkut, an online social network created by Internet search giant Google, with ‘very positive results,’ Clarke said.
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Darknet software has so far been treated as a tolerable bane by copyright defenders because programs have been difficult to use and limited to sharing between groups of no more than five or 10 computer users.
“We’ve devised a way you can have a darknet with potentially millions of users,” Clarke said. “We hope we will have something suitable for launch this side of Christmas.”
Clarke said that Freenet is altruistically advancing technology and defending democratic ideals of unrestrained communication.
“Our goal has never been to encourage copyright infringement, however, you cannot have freedom of communication and protect copyright laws,” he continued. “The two are mutually exclusive.”
Dear Music Industry :
“If you are selling water in the desert and one day it starts to rain, what do you do?” he asked rhetorically. “Go to the government and get them to ban rain, or do you sell something else?”
From the [FreeNetProject]
“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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