Re:Why I don't use it (Score 3, Informative)

The idea of Freenet is really great, but there were two things in the implementation that really annoyed me:

Yes but these aren't bugs they are a fundemental parts of the design.

1) I cannot control what is in my datastore...

Then neither can anyone else, if a blacklist was implemented (keys a node should not cache) then Evil Organisation of your choice (RIAA,FBI,MI5), could publish a blacklist that you MUST use.

2) My files aren't shared permanently..

Because its not just about storage but about routing. The requesting of files should cause data to "migrate" across the network allowing for specialisation. The caching and expiring of data is a fundemental part of this process. It is this that gives the scalability thats I feel is lacking in other P2P networks.