Freenet attempts to remove the possibility of any group imposing their beliefs or values on any data.

In contrast with the decentralized censorship-resistant peer-to-peer file sharing software called Freenet, which is specifically designed to be very censorship-resistant, and in fact, to increase distribution of information in the case of censorship attempts, there is little information regarding the independence of the Central Asian networks from censorship by the operating authorities.

The standard for Magnet URIs was developed in 2002, partly as a " vendor-and project-neutral generalization " of the and URI schemes used by eDonkey2000 and Freenet, respectively, and attempts to follow official IETF URI standards as closely as possible.

This provides plausible deniability, and in combination with the request relaying means that safe harbor laws that protect service providers also protect Freenet node operators.

Critics of Kaneko have stated that the main purpose of Winny is to violate copyright law, unlike Freenet, another peer-to-peer system that Winny is often compared to, which claims to protect freedom of speech.

Infoanarchists may encourage and practice the use of anonymous networks, like Freenet, Entropy, Tor or I2P, to protect against legal attacks, as they make it difficult for observers, or any middleman, to determine what traffic is going across the network.

Both Freenet and some of its associated tools were originally designed by Ian Clarke, who defines Freenet's goal as providing freedom of speech with strong anonymity protection.

Many of the differences in how Freenet behaves at a user level are direct or indirect consequences of its strong focus on free speech and anonymity.

Freenet's founders argue that only with true anonymity comes true freedom of speech, and that what they view as the beneficial uses of Freenet outweigh its negative uses.

Freenet is different from most other peer-to-peer applications, both in how users interact with it and in the security it offers.

In version 0. 7, Freenet supports both ' Opennet ' ( similar to the old algorithms, but simpler ), and ' Darknet ' ( all node connections are set up manually, so only your friends know your node's IP address ).

This work indicates that Freenet can find data in hops on a small-world network ( which includes both opennet and darknet style Freenet networks ), when ignoring the caching which could improve the scalability for popular content.

As of version 0. 7, Freenet supports both " darknet " and " opennet " connections.

Distributed hash tables use a more structured key-based routing in order to attain both the decentralization of Freenet and gnutella, and the efficiency and guaranteed results of Napster.

Some networks like Freenet support both network types simultaneously ( a node can have some manually added darknet peer nodes and some automatically selected opennet peers ).

Founded in September 1992 by people affiliated with Carleton University, National Capital Freenet ( NCF ) ( French: Libertel de la Capitale Nationale ), is a non-profit community organization internet service provider, with the goal of linking people in Canada's capital of Ottawa.

Encryption of data and relaying of requests makes it difficult to determine who inserted content into Freenet, who requested that content, or where the content was stored.

Unlike other P2P networks, Freenet not only transmits data between nodes but actually stores them, working as a huge distributed cache.

In this way Freenet tends to ' forget ' data which is not retrieved regularly ( see also Effect ).

If the network actually is a small-world network, Freenet should find data reasonably quickly ; ideally on the order of hops.

So the data in a newly started Freenet will be distributed somewhat randomly.

This key contains the meat of the data on Freenet.

Tor's onion space ( hidden service ), HavenCo ( centralized ), and Freenet ( decentralized ) are three models of modern-day virtual data havens.

However, Freenet does not guarantee that data will be found.

In Freenet, on the other hand, messages are routed using keys that identify specific pieces of data rather than specific nodes ; the nodes themselves are anonymous.

Freenet is a censorship-resistant distributed data store.

However, Entropy and Freenet data stores are not compatible with each other and therefore do not share data.

Freenet is a pioneering anonymous peer-to-peer distributed data store

While Freenet provides an HTTP interface for browsing freesites, it is not a proxy for the World Wide Web ; Freenet can only be used to access content that has been previously inserted into the Freenet network.

Files on Freenet are typically split into multiple small blocks, with additional blocks added to provide redundancy.

This also means that small darknets where some users also have opennet connections are fully integrated into the whole Freenet network, allowing all users access to all content, whether they run opennet, darknet, or a hybrid of the two.

When Freenet 0. 5 ( FCon or Freenet Classic Opennet ) forked into Freenet 0. 7, most users moved to Freenet 0. 7.

Freenet is a prime example of translating political thought ( anyone should be able to speak ) into code.

It separates the underlying network structure and protocol from how users interact with the network ; as a result, there are a variety of ways to access content on the Freenet network.

Every node on the Freenet network contributes storage space to hold files, and bandwidth that it uses to route requests from its peers.

The Freenet file sharing network stores documents and allows them to be retrieved later by an associated key, as is now possible with protocols such as HTTP.

Information stored on Freenet is distributed around the network and stored on several different nodes.

Freenet may also be considered a small world network.

The Freenet protocol is intended to be used on a network of complex topology, such as the Internet ( Internet Protocol ).

Freenet assumes that the Darknet ( a subset of the global social network ) is a small-world network, and nodes constantly attempt to swap locations ( using the Metropolis – Hastings algorithm ) in order to minimize their distance to their neighbors.

Furthermore, the security features inherent to Freenet make detailed performance analysis ( including things as simple as determining the size of the network ) difficult to do accurately.

Opennet connections are easy to use, but darknet connections are more secure against attackers on the network, and can make it difficult for an attacker ( such as an oppressive government ) to even determine that a user is running Freenet in the first place.

Since the C & D order, the author of Requiem initially made it available with source code on the anonymous Freenet network, but then moved it to a Tor hidden service.

The Freenet file sharing network is another application of the idea.

Winny ( also known as WinNY ) is a Japanese peer-to-peer ( P2P ) file-sharing program which claims to be loosely inspired by the design principles behind the Freenet network, which makes user identities untraceable.