Ian Clarke on Freenet 11
chisox writes "The Independent in London has an int erview with Ian Clarke, the man
behind the Free Network Project. If you think Napster has the music industry
worried, what until they see Freenet...Clarke's just quit his job in London and is heading for LA to start his own company, Upriser."
Going after Napster and Freenet (Score:2)
Suing Freenet's creator might be a way to threaten its future, but it's hardly logical when compared with other types of lawsuits. While we're at it, why not sue makers of baseball bats because their products _can_ be used to violently kill people ? Same difference.
Freenet and Napster weren't created to facilitate piracy, they were created to facilitate file distribution, just like CD-writers, zip drives, heck even modems themselves. Sue Panasonic because they make cd-writers.. sue them again for making walkmans that can play cd-r's..
All this lawsuit crap isn't helping anybody, not even the money whores behind them. It's just giving an extremely bad image to the RIAA/MPAA/whomever, they're spitting on their sources of income. Stupid megacorporations.
More Freenet interviews (Score:1)
June 30, 2000: MP3 Summit Ian at MP3 Summit webcast [mp3.com]
You can find Ian's hour long talk at the MP3 Summit about 1 hour 8 minutes into the Wednesday webcast.
June 16, 2000: Guardian Free market fight for music moguls [guardianunlimited.co.uk]
Interesting article in a British national newspaper.
May 27, 2000: LA Weekly Genie 1, Bottle 0 [laweekly.com]
Very amusing article on Freenet and copyright. Highly recommended.
May 24, 2000: Channel 4 News Hackers stay one step ahead [itn.co.uk]
A very cool news item talking about recent attempts by the British government to censor the Internet and how Freenet will make this very difficult. Includes text and streaming video of the item.
May 23, 2000: Libération L'anarchie est au bout du clavier [liberation.com]
An interesting French article about Freenet, concentrating on the freedom of information aspects of the system rather than just copyright.
May 12, 2000: National Post Napster secured page in Internet history [nationalpost.com]
Interesting description of why Freenet is not vulnerable in the same way that Napster is, although I must say that their "final thought" is slightly perplexing!
May 12, 2000: O'Reilly Network Gnutella and Freenet represent true technological innovation [oreillynet.com]
A nice article concentrating, for a change, on the technical side of Freenet and Gnutella. Reasonably accurate, although it understates the efficiency improvement that Freenet should provide (describing it as of comparable efficiency to the WWW where it should be much more efficient).
May 12, 2000: Het Nieuwsblad Vrijheid van downloaden [nieuwsblad.be]
A Belgian article about Freenet.
May 10, 2000: Houston Chronicle Software developer pledges to foil all intellectual property watchdogs [chron.com]
A version of the article below, doesn't require that you register.
May 10, 2000: New York Times The Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival [nytimes.com]
One of the better articles; concentrates on the copyright issue. Requires free registration.
April 27, 2000: PCFormat Daily FreeNet [pcformat.co.uk]
A brief article on Freenet.
April 27, 2000: Heise News-Ticker World Wide Anarchy: Netz ohne Kontrolle [heise.de]
A German article on Freenet.
April 26, 2000: CNET.com Free, anonymous information on the anarchists' Net [cnet.com]
Entertaining article with some nice quotes.
April 17, 2000: The Irish Times Anarchy Rules Alternative Web [ireland.com]
A rather amusing article on Freenet.
April 16, 2000: Freshmeat Client As Server: The New Model [freshmeat.net]
An interesting article discussing distributed systems and how systems like Freenet are actually in a similar spirit to the original Internet.
April 13, 2000: El País Freenet propone una red sin censuras, alternativa a la WWW [elpais.es]
A Spanish article about Freenet.
April 10, 2000: Slashdot.org FreeNet's Ian Clarke Answers Privacy Questions [slashdot.org]
A very informative interview conducted by the readership of SlashDot.org, probably the closest thing to a FAQ, aside from our faq [slashdot.org].
March 25, 2000: ABC News Freedom on the Net? [go.com]
A rehash of the New Scientist article below, but likely to reach a much larger audience.
March 25, 2000: New Scientist Out of control [newscientist.com]
A "big bad Internet"-style article, but it is reasonably well researched and seeks the opinions of those who might be considered Freenet's opposition.
March 23, 2000: Heise.de Ein Netzwerk, das Zensur unmöglich machen soll [heise.de]
A German article on Freenet.
March 14, 2000: OLinux Freenet, a polemic concept to deal with WWW [olinux.com.br]
An English translation of a Brazilian interview with Ian Clarke [mailto]. Focuses on the technical aspects of Freenet, and goes into a reasonable amount of detail as to how the system works.
March 10, 2000: Webwereld Anoniem Freenet ultieme schuilplaats voor piraten [webwereld.nl]
A Dutch article on Freenet. My Dutch is a little rusty but it looks like it is primarily inspired by the Wired article below.
March 8, 2000: no spoon FreeNet : le réseau anonyme distribué qui supplantera le Web [nospoon.org]
An excellent French article on Freenet, draws an interesting parallel between Freenet and the writings of Neal Stephenson.
March 3, 2000: Need To Know sufficiently advanced technology: the gathering [ntk.net]
A brief but excellent article again approaching Freenet from a pro-freedom standpoint.
February 24, 2000: PigDog Journal Get in on the Ground Floor of Freedom [pigdog.org]
A very positive little article describing Freenet and why they think it is interesting using some rather "colorful" language.
August 14, 1999: Brave Gnu World FreeNET [gnu.org]
One of the first articles about Freenet back when it was 100% theory. Still an excellent introduction to the way Freenet works.
What's wrong with slashdot? (Score:1)
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Re:More Freenet interviews (Score:1)
That must've taken you, what, 5 seconds to copy and paste? This adds nothing to the discussion. Why didn't you just give us a link to the links you copied?
Good try, though.
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Re:Going after Napster and Freenet (Score:1)
>>_can_ be used to violently kill people ? Same difference.
In the US, we already do this. We sued tobacco companies (quite successfully, according to the jury verdict last Friday) and we have sued weapons manufacturers (okay, we are GOING TO sue them). Suing Napster follows quite logically.
Re:Going after Napster and Freenet (Score:1)
Yay Canada.
Re:Going after Napster and Freenet (Score:1)
In light of that, I can forgive y'all for Alanis Morrisette.
*runs like hell*
Re:Going after Napster and Freenet (Score:2)
They claimed that tobacco was not dangerous. Then when the warning labels had to be put on the package, they claimed, "The government made us do it, but there is no real proof to the danger. And of course it's not addictive"
But all the time they hid the proof that they did have.
ANd you obviously don't know the basis of the gun suit.
What about holding a virus writer liable for the virus that he/she writes? Do you feel that makers of SPAMming software that hijacks unauthorized computers to SPAM to be held liable?
Napter is different. They don't claim pirates can't use it. Nobody dies when Napster is properly used.
Re:Going after Napster and Freenet (Score:1)
Re:Going after Napster and Freenet (Score:1)
Actually, funny you should mention this, because makers of any media capable of storing music are already paying levys to various groups in control of the recording industry. See this page [sycorp.com] for more info...
Re:Going after Napster and Freenet (Score:1)