OneSwarm 0.7

OneSwarm is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing tool with an emphasis on privacy. Basically, it is just another application that you can use to download files from Internet, but it does things quite differently than other applications of the kind. The most evident difference is the fact that OneSwarm runs from a web browser. In fact, the application runs as a server and you connect to it via the web browser. To start downloading you have to find at least one friend. People are connected to a "swarm" or community. You can access the community and add friends from there. But you can't really search for files before you befriend someone. After you do that, OneSwarm will start finding results for your searches. And you can download files or torrent files directly from other people. It is unclear how the queue system works, but I was unable to download a few files from a few different people. It perhaps is a matter of waiting for your turn to be up.

As I mentioned, OneSwarm has an emphasis on privacy. The application attempts to make your activity private by hiding some specific markers from the prying eye. However, you can't really make use of those privacy features unless you are downloading from a friend in OneSwarm.