On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Ximin Luo <xl269 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> I wasn't suggesting taking legal action against the Guardian. Sorry if >> that's >> what "libel" implies - I'm not "in" with legal terminology. I was just >> pointing >> out that it's a very very very misleading caption; practically a lie. > > It certainly focuses on the negative to the exclusion of the positive, but > regardless - I don't think it hurts us. ?I think most people are smart > enough to know that if Freenet is safe enough for criminals then it must do > what it claims to do! > Sure enough, our traffic has increased dramatically since that article, > primarily coming from people searching for "freenet" in search engines, so > they are obviously reading the article and deciding to try it. ?Even today, > several days later, our traffic is quite a bit higher than normal. > Ian.
The article appears to account for a near doubling in size of the Freenet network, both in terms of nodes online at any one time and total nodes seen, according to my tests. The network size growth has slowed dramatically since the article came out, but it's still growing, and shows no signs of peaking. Evan Daniel
