Taliban wrote: On the contrary. Anonymity on a p2p network is not important at all unless you plan on committing crimes.

Read the Freenet philosophy page and decide if this statement is true.

http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/tw...ain/Philosophy

7. But why is anonymity necessary?
You cannot have freedom of speech without the option to remain anonymous. Most censorship is retrospective, it is generally much easier to curtail free speech by punishing those who exercise it afterward, rather than preventing them from doing it in the first place. The only way to prevent this is to remain anonymous. It is a common misconception that you cannot trust anonymous information. This is not necessarily true, using digital signatures people can create a secure anonymous pseudonym which, in time, people can learn to trust. Freenet incorporates a mechanism called "subspaces" to facilitate this.