MUTE 0.5.1

MUTE File Sharing is a peer-to-peer network that provides easy search-and-download functionality while also protecting your privacy.

The main way that MUTE protects your privacy is by avoiding direct connections between downloaders and uploaders. Search requests are sent around standard networks: you send a search to your neighbors, and they send it to their neighbors, who in turn send it to their neighbors, and so on. By using the network to route search requests, these networks deliver a particular request to many nodes without making direct connections to any of them. Of course, when it comes time to transfer a file, these networks use direct connections.

MUTE routes all messages, including search requests, search results, and file transfers, through the network of neighbor connections. Thus, though you know the Internet addresses of your neighbors, you do not know the Internet address of the node you are downloading from.

Note: We have our own official MUTE WebCache which you can connect to using MUTE.