Freenet

Freenet is a decentralized (hosted on many machines) network., It is censorship-resistant, which means it is not easy for anyone other than authors to remove content. The data is stored on many machines. Freenet was made by Ian Clarke. Freenet has a goal to provide freedom of speech and Freedom of information through a peer-to-peer network with protection of user's identity. Freenet works by putting together the volunteer bandwidth and storage space of member machines to allow users to anonymously publish (place or upload) or retrieve (get or download) different kinds of information. From a user's perspective, it can be thought of as simply a large storage device.

Logo of Freenet
The_welcome_page_of_Freenet_Hyphanet.png
FProxy index page (Freenet 0.7.5)
Developer(s)[1]
Initial releaseMarch 2000; 24 years ago (2000-03)
Stable releaseTemplate:Latest stable software release/Freenet
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform: Unix-like (Android, Linux, BSD, macOS), Microsoft Windows
PlatformJava
Available inEnglish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Chinese[2]
TypeAnonymity application, peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend, overlay network, mix network, distributed data store
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitefreenetproject.org

Freenet has been under continuous development since 2000; a version 1.0 has not yet been released but current builds are usable. The project has already seen a ground-up rewrite (redoing of programming) for version 0.7.[3] Freenet is free software.

Freenet Media

Related pages

References

  1. "People". Freenet: The Free Network official website. 22 September 2008. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  2. Language specific versions of Freenet, GitHub: Freenet.
  3. "Freenet News". Archived from the original on 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2009-08-02.