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FEC stands for Forward Error Correction. When large files are inserted into Freenet, they are split into many small blocks — this is called a splitfile. FEC adds redundant check blocks to a splitfile, so that if some of the blocks fall out of the network or can’t be found, you might still be able to retrieve enough of the file to reconstruct it.
