Indian Firm Touts "Alternative Internet"

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Indian technology firm NetAlter Software has unveiled details of what it claims is a virus and spam-free "internet alternative". According to the company, it has patented a "true P2P" system that offers a domain-less alternative to the web and the internet. The NetAlter system will "offer a secure, trusted, spam-free and virus-free software and network for end users and businesses". Users wishing to access the network will have to use the NetAlter Service Browser, available free to end users worldwide, enabling them to connect, communicate and share with other users from their PCs via a P2P network.

"Users will no longer have to worry about their personal and financial information being hacked or misused as the NetAlter browser will not allow unauthorised programs to run and will protect the intellectual property of creators of content and applications," NetAlter claimed. The network will provide features such as email, file sharing, information sharing and messaging, as well as allowing the creation of personal and business networks. "Wherever you are, by simply installing the NetAlter browser on your PC, you can publish content across the network without registering a domain name or hosting a web server."

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#1 Glassed Silver on 03 Sep 2007 - 17:38

is it just me, or is this internet-alternative stuff really starting to annoy me more and more?

hah... good luck on that one:
""[...]and will protect the intellectual property of creators of content and applications,""

Glassed Silver:mac

#2 NightmarE D on 03 Sep 2007 - 17:42

Seems too good to be true. Some 12 year old kid would hack it in an hour most likely

#3 billyea on 03 Sep 2007 - 17:42

Yay, another person trying to reinvent the Internet.
What's SO wrong with our current one?

#4 Tomo on 03 Sep 2007 - 17:47

Maybe its virus and spam free now but wait till they actually get some users! I'll give it 30 minutes.

Sounds to me like some P2P application that runs across the internet..a bit like eMule?

#5 Justin- on 03 Sep 2007 - 17:49

Is this some kind of joke? lol

(1 reply) #6 +Vlad on 03 Sep 2007 - 18:02

Sounds an awful lot like what AOL was supposed to be.

#6.1 Croquant on 03 Sep 2007 - 20:45

Except the tech support is all from people who don't speak English.

No, wait...

#7 Foub on 03 Sep 2007 - 18:06

Haven't these guys heard of Trojans?

#8 pyehac on 03 Sep 2007 - 18:23

When there's a will, there's a way...

#9 neufuse on 03 Sep 2007 - 18:46

virus and spyware free... until users get on it

#10 pallavsuri on 03 Sep 2007 - 19:02

maybe its a new style of meditation. everyone networking without devices on the Astral plane now..... mmm return to eden india style

#11 nunjabusiness on 03 Sep 2007 - 19:27

P2P and "protect the intellectual property"

Wait for it ...

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Sorry, ahem ...

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

#12 solardog on 03 Sep 2007 - 20:29

Its virus free for the same reason the moon is...no ones there.

#13 cybershark on 03 Sep 2007 - 21:14

and again I say: Welcome to Spynet

#14 yjwong on 03 Sep 2007 - 21:20

Isn't there a current similar idea that has already been implemented? See FreeNet.

#15 black_death on 03 Sep 2007 - 21:25

rofl: for all attempts at making a new internet, mao: for all claims of it being safe from viruses and hackers

#16 Jugalator on 03 Sep 2007 - 21:57

Indianet?

#17 mlerner on 03 Sep 2007 - 23:16

Just don't call for support, it's coming from India!

#18 Jaron on 04 Sep 2007 - 00:17

Who wants to be using this version of Internet where you are restricted in what you can do? So I can't use my browser of choice with all the extension I want? Forget it.

(1 reply) #19 kaiwai on 04 Sep 2007 - 02:57

If you took away the porn and pirated content - what would you end up with? a few AOL pages talking about their cat/dog/pig ugly child?

#19.1 +Dakkaroth on 04 Sep 2007 - 16:52

Looks like we know what you do all day.

#20 DaltonLauer on 04 Sep 2007 - 03:42

All new ideas are ridiculed initially ! I'd prefer to wait and watch, rather than making country-specific comments.

#21 +Berserk87 on 04 Sep 2007 - 06:11

the internet is far from perfect, but if it wasnt what it is right now, a LOT of people would be out of work, and knowing how to use it without filling my computer with spyware/virus's makes me feel smarter then most of the people i know

#22 Antaris on 04 Sep 2007 - 07:50

I had a look at both there Technology presentation and the Internet TV presentation, but to be honest it seems a bit...unrealistic. They have set out this plan for this massive broad reaching platform, but from what it says, it seems like they haven't even started.

#23 trip21 on 04 Sep 2007 - 09:57

Yeah well everything always looks like it runs perfectly to programmers and designers. I'd be worried if things went wrong every indian would already be working helpdesk for other companies

#24 +The Cub on 04 Sep 2007 - 13:22

I think these say at all :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ekIIvfyfD8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8woC9B30zE

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