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Freenet keeps file-trading flame burning
News A new version of the Freenet software, a program based around wholly anonymous Net publishing and distribution, is due out Monday after long silence from its mostly volunteer developer community. Freenet has long been a kind of peer-to-peer...
[October 28, 2002, 14:18]
Freenet founder launches business P2P product
News That's a far cry from the radical anticensorship drive of co-founder Ian Clarke, whose Freenet project which first brought him and Uprizer into the public eye. The Uprizer technology is based loosely on Freenet's system of distributing content.
[May 1, 2002, 12:46]
Forget Napster, FreeNet is really scary...
News A spokeswoman for the Music industry watchdog the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), has admitted to ZDNet that it is concerned by several Napster clones, but one in particular: FreeNet.
[June 1, 2000, 7:03]
Anarchist coders prime unfettered file swapping service
News This release will move away from Freenet as a research platform," said Ian Clarke, the British programmer who originally conceived Freenet as a university thesis. But the developers behind Freenet, Cryptobox and other services are trying to provide...
[June 19, 2001, 14:46]
Covert P2P network fails to hide users
News There are around a quarter of a million users of the supposedly anonymous file-trading network, called Winny, which rides on the more well-known Freenet network. The creator of Freenet, Ian Clarke, has cast doubt on whether Winny uses Freenet's...
[December 3, 2003, 14:25]
Guerilla tactics will defeat music industry
News Another lesser-known Napster-style project, FreeNet has been designed to be particularly difficult to shut down while at the same time protecting the identity of its users. Developed by British programmer Ian Clarke while at Edinburgh University...
[July 27, 2000, 12:40]
Experts unconcerned by imminent Sober attack
News After 19th of January the list becomes: people.freenet.de/idoolwnzwuvnmbyava/ people.freenet.de/mhfasfsi/ people.freenet.de/nkpphimpfupn/ people.freenet.de/ozumtinn/ people.freenet.de/bnfyfnueoomubnw/ people.freenet.de/kbyquqbwsku/ people...
[January 4, 2006, 13:15]
Covert Napster clone to arrive for Christmas
News The project, titled Tropus, is based on Freenet, a peer-to-peer file sharing technology created by Irish computer programmer and privacy enthusiast Ian Clarke. Freenet is similar to Napster but does not rely on a central server to pass around files.
[October 6, 2000, 9:52]
Legal Napster alternative to be unveiled
News Clarke is the developer responsible for FreeNet, a well-known distributed, non-centralised file-sharing system similar to Gnutella. He says his experience with Freenet has been invaluable in the development of Uprizer's Napster alternative.
[August 4, 2000, 9:15]
Shoot to kill: Media Enforcer stalks Napster
News In an interview with Zeropaid.com the programmer talks about how Media Enforcer could even throw a spanner in the workings of Napster's would-be successor 'Freenet'. An anti-Napster program called the Media Enforcer has been created by an anonymous...
[June 2, 2000, 10:34]
Roundup: The Napster struggle
News Fri, 04th Aug 2000 Putting music online legally without enforcing copyright is the novel plan behind Freenet's successor. ZDNet provides you with an update of the hottest stories as the record industry goes head to head with Napster and wins.
[July 28, 2000, 15:50]
Stallman to speak on peer-to-peer
News It also shows growing awareness of the potential value of peer-to-peer technology such as Napster, Gnutella and Freenet. Free software gurus including Richard Stallman, founder of the free software foundation and Bruce Perens, author of the Open...
[March 19, 2001, 14:53]
Peer-to-peer conference rescheduled
News Speakers at the conference will include Ian Clarke, architect and coordinator of The Freenet Project, Congressman Rick Boucher and Ray Ozzie -- founder and chief executive of Groove Networks and creator of Lotus Notes.
[September 21, 2001, 7:30]
Tiscali buys Liberty Surf
News Still independent are Mobilcom's Freenet, Vodafone's Germany.net and Scandinavia Online. Italy's Tiscali bought French Internet service provider Liberty Surf Monday in a cash and stock deal valued at 900m euros (£569.5m), snapping up one of the...
[January 8, 2001, 11:15]
Swap this! EMusic takes on Napster
News EMusic's "acoustic fingerprint" technology is capable of tracking songs traded on other file-swapping applications, such as Gnutella and Freenet. Napster got a new enemy Tuesday, and this time it's one of its own.
[November 22, 2000, 8:29]
Blue Talk: P2P for handhelds
News Its many offspring, including Gnutella and Freenet, also say they have customers in the millions. Swedish software maker, Pocit Labs, says it has created the world's first Napster-like file-swapping software for mobile devices that communicate...
[March 7, 2001, 11:22]
Napster alternatives booming
News Shane Ham, technology policy analyst for the Progressive Policy Institute, says other sites, including Gnutella, Scour and FreeNet, will also be destinations for many Napster users searching for a new home.
[July 28, 2000, 8:19]
Napster deal comes with a price tag
News But now those same arguments could be used against Napster by other file-swapping sites like Gnutella or Freenet. The "new Napster" may also include a link to CDNow and could be used to swap other types of content, including video, Barry said...
[November 1, 2000, 7:45]
Intel hops on the file-sharing train
News Napster, Gnutella, Freenet -- and Intel? The old-guard chip giant later this month will attempt to prove it can get down with the baddest Net players when it announces a plan to ignite development of more peer-to-peer networking for businesses and...
[August 9, 2000, 13:38]
ISPs told to help eradicate Sober
News Locate the users that produce an unlikely large amount of constant hits to people.freenet.de, scifi.pages.at, home.pages.at, free.pages.at and home.arcor.de. ISPs were urged on Monday to check their user traffic patterns to locate and shut down...
[January 9, 2006, 13:40]
