another take on napster and gnutella … Freenet is a decentralized peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet …

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• Freenet gets $4M from Intel … -- "Uprizer Inc., the peer-to-peer upstart of Freenet founder Ian Clarke, today picked up a $4 million in funding from chipmaker Intel Corp. and other investors." From: Ian Clarke's Uprizer Gets $4 Million ...
• New version of Freenet released -- There are some interesting new features in the latest release of Freenet: Like for example, “Forward Error Correction and Healing” or FEC, which not only allows for larger files to be shared, it also provides a “healing” feature, so that...
• P2P as a CDN -- EverNet to debut peer-to-peer software that designed to be used as a content delivery network (CDN) … "Basically EverNet uses a thin client that lets users on a corporate network – or on the Internet – act as content receivers...
• Distributed file systems -- found this post about Microsoft's Farsite on Geeknews, but it sounds a lot like Ian Clarke's "distributed decentralized information storage and retrieval system" (i.e. Freenet) ...
• Napster Fuels P2P Uproar -- everything's coming up napster … ZDNet: News: Napster fuels peer-to-peer uproar: "Venture capitalists can't jump on the latest fad fast enough" ...
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• Sheet Music to Napster: Music Distribution Tech -- interesting essay on slashdot: "Not only am I unsure of what changes are coming down the road, I don't think I dare predict whether they're going to be changes for the better or worse. But whatever happens over the next...