On 12/15/07, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > On Saturday 15 December 2007 13:51, Volodya wrote: > > > "Warning: Freenet may be illegal in some countries. If you allow you > > > to connect to strangers, those strangers will know that you are > > > running Freenet, and this could be dangerous. Freenet is still beta > > > software, and we offer no guarantees as to its security." > > > > Some ISPs have it written in the contract that you are not to run p2p > software, but that doesn't make it > > "illegal", maybe "disallowed" would be a better word. > > And some major governments block it on their national firewalls, and have the > death penalty for "revealing state secrets" and similar speech crimes.
We really need to avoid the temptation to get carried away trying to make what needs to be a simple piece of explanatory text somehow cover every eventuality as if it was a legal document. If its too long or two complicated then nobody will read it, and then all of this wordsmithing will be moot anyway. Ian. -- Email: ian.clarke at gmail.com Cell: +1 512 422 3588 AIM: ian.clarke at mac.com Skype: sanity
