PEERmadness was founded in 2007 by a small group that was tired of the internet becoming too commercial, too monitored and too much an invasion of privacy. Online advertising and network monitoring have become the rule, rather than the exception. The PEERmadness technology, network and services are all provided to eliminate these burdens and grotesque invasions from its users.

The fundamental philosophy of the internet was to connect a large number of disparate computers together so they could communicate and function harmoniously. As the popularity of the internet grew, so did the interest in what the general users were doing on the internet and as traffic across the internet grows more and more companies are trying to automate the collection of consumer data and marketing metrics. Here at PEERmadness we believe you should be able to partake in the power of the internet without being at the mercy -- most of the time, unknowningly -- of these special interest groups.

Internet service providers have begun banning certain protocols and applications running on their networks simply because they felt it was in their best interest to do so. This is almost an exact parallel to how pay-cable was supposed to be ad-free (hence the reason for charging the consumer), but as soon as the large media conglomerates realized they could charge the consumer AND the advertisers and make double the money, they did and thus began the slow abandonment of advocating for the paying subscriber.

The PEERmadness network is proprietary, unpublished and not open to any third parties. The communication across the network cannot be monitored using traditional methods. PEERmadness users are even safe from their ISPs blocking their traffic based on corporate whims. The goal of the PEERmadness team and the PEERmadness application is to bring the power of the internet back to the consumer. By providing a protected "internet within the internet", PEERmadness can block all unwanted content to the inner network. As Abraham Lincoln might have put it: "That this network, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that a network of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."