Freenet has a footprint of around 200MB of RAM

Interesting project but I think RAM load is bit higher than expected.
Anyway it won't be a problem in 2-3 years for most of the users.

Do I have to donate disk space and bandwidth?
You aren't really donating in the sense that you lose the disk space and the bandwidth; but you aren't really sharing either (at least not the same way as with filesharing programs). It is more like pitching in to the common Freenet resource pool.

What about child porn, offensive content or terrorism?
While most people wish that child pornography and terrorism did not exist, humanity should not be deprived of their freedom to communicate just because of how a very small number of people might use that freedom.

I don't want my node to be used to harbor child porn, offensive content or terrorism. What can I do?
The true test of someone who claims to believe in Freedom of Speech is whether they tolerate speech which they disagree with, or even find disgusting. If this is not acceptable to you, you should not run a Freenet node. There is another thing you can do. Since content in Freenet is available as long as its popular, you can help limit the popularity of whatever information you do not like. For example, if you do not want a file to spread you should not request it and tell everyone you know not to request that specific key. However, keep in mind that freenet is not designed so as to only allow communication between people if a sufficient number of people agree with the communication. Freenet is designed to make communication possible even if there's just one publisher and one reader, and this is already reasonably feasible on the current freenet.

I have nothing to hide and don't need anonymity. Is there anything else Freenet can offer?
Yes, in fact even without the anonymity feature Freenet is very useful because of its unique way it handles content distribution and information load. In simple terms that means you can publish a website without worrying about how big the site will be and without having to put someone elses ad banners on it. While it is unlikely that freenet sites will ever load faster than regular websites, it does adapt to sudden surges of visitors (which will often occur when relatively unknown sites get linked to from a big site) better, and high download speeds for big files are feasible too. Just don't expect very low latency.

I'am a big geek, so i find its concepts really interesting

also, another awesome thing,

you could host the entire site on the freenet network with all the files, all encrypted.
And only people with freenet (from within a browser) could view it (and host parts of it)

the possibility of it are endless..

Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are routed through other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine who is requesting the information and what its content is.

It says (and that is quite reasonable) that you can only host static HTML via freenet. Which means you would have to edit HTML pages manually instead of using a database and a complex board/forum like this.

One would need to send links to a head person that then continuously updates the pages.



The bad thing is that they only have to pass a law that prohibits any kind of activity related to file sharing. That way even participating would be illegal, making this entire thing quite useless.