On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:49:53AM +1000, Ian Cullinan wrote: > Dear freenet people, > > it seems to me that freenet will only become really useful for p2p > filesharing with and index and way to seach freenet. I think this has > sort-of been tried before, but what if built into the freenet node was a > way to index every key inserted, in an index key. if a search mechanism > was also built into the node, then freenet would suddenly become useful to > the "average joe" end user, which surely must be one of your goals - > freedom of speech is useless if noone can hear you.
In that case, there would be ten million keys inserted in complete anonymity by the RIAA (or whomever your favourite enemy is) with names of popular content that people want, which would point to nothing and would not be retrievable. Real searching requires some sort of web of (pseudonymous) trust, and is fairly difficult in an anonymous environment like Freenet, but you could look into Frost. > > >From Ian Cullinan > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get mobile Hotmail. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/signup.asp -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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