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Originally Posted by jeffcobb
BTW and just to be clear: When posters refer to "darknet" (a new term for me) you are referring to parts of the net to get illegal stuff, corrrect? IOW you are not referring to a specific network or somthing...
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Darknet" had nothing originally to do with legality; it was based on findability/searchability. The "darknet" is the stuff that's not publicly viewable. It includes email archives that require registration, closed-membership forums, and torrent networks.
Because these sites aren't easily findable, they're where the illegal file exchanges happen. They're also where a lot of legal but possibly "immoral" content is exchanged; a lot of porn is on the darknet. (Or darknets, 'cos they're not all related.) Also, with the term growing to mean "any file-sharing network," a lot of indie bands & some legit movie releases are there.
One form of darknet is "snearkernet"--files transferred by physically moving the storage medium from one person to another. This used to be "I'll burn a disc for you" and has expanded to "Got a flash drive? I'll bring you the files tomorrow."