> > By ignoring the fact that Freenet is considered to be similar to Napster
> > and Gnutella we will not make it go away.  It is a much more honest
> > approach to tackle this head-on, rather than burying our heads in the sand.
> 
> And like always, I don`t give a flying fuck what most people (/sheeple)  
> think Freenet is, I care what _thinking_ people think that Freenet and the
> Freenet project are about. Putting that text on the frontpage as the first
> thing people reads makes it seem like _we_ think we are building a Napster
> clone...

The problem is that if you ignore the uneducated, then they will never
become educated.  If we only encouraged people who fully understood
Freenet to use it, then Freenet would probably have about 50 users.  We
must be pragmatic.  The reality is that Freenet is, in some ways,
similar to Gnutella and Napster, particularly Gnutella, in that they
both reject centralised servers to make them more difficult to attack. 
Of course, Freenet is much more than either Napster or Gnutella, and
started with much broader aims than merely trading copyrighted material,
yet we have to accept that many people were introduced to Freenet by the
copyright debate.  We must also accept that freenet will be useless
without users, even if many of them are newbies who don't fully
understand what Freenet is about.

Ian.
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