MUTE: Simple, Private File Sharing
Found on Slashdot on Friday, 19 December 2003
MUTE is a new file sharing network that provides easy search and download functionality while protecting your privacy. It does this by routing all messages through a network of neighbour connections, using virtual addresses and encrypting all the traffic (using RSA for public/private keys and AES for the actual encryption). MUTE's routing mechanism is inspired by ant behaviour. The program is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
After all that sueing, this is the next step. Let's see what happens when the majority of sharers use programs like this one.