IP: Networks promise unfettered file swapping: Networks promise unfettered file swapping

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> 1. Networks promise unfettered file swapping
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> The fate of the free Net may rest in the hands of a university
> student in Sweden making less money than a coffee slinger at
> Starbucks. While the first generation of file-trading
> technologies fights over Napster's leavings, more radical Net
> programmers are still committed to building a wholly
> anonymous, virtually untraceable way of communicating and
> trading files online. Chief among these is Freenet, an open-
> source project viewed by many as the ultimate inheritor to
> Napster's original promise of free online file swapping.
> June 19, 2001, 4:00 a.m. PT
> http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eBuj0Gasa0U0crl0AM



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