Is there a distributed/p2p chan engine?

There was one on ZeroNet, but I didn't like it. Maybe someone developed one for freenet.

I don't recall any lawsuit on innocent programmers. The only times these happen is when some corporation uses GPL'd code and doesn't give it back.

Still is.
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zerochan dev didn't have time to continue to develop/was lazy and now redirects to millchan.

NNTP is a protocol. The lack of protocol security is seen as a non-issue when NNTP-chan is hosted over I2P and Tor