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  “What if WikiLeaks was a sort of Wiki-BitTorrent, served 
  by thousands of people around the world running a 
  background process on their computers,” mused  Edward 
  Benson, a Ph.D. student at the MIT Computer Science and 
  Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
This has been done. Ten years ago, in fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

Anonymous, encrypted, person to person, fault resistant, it's got it all. The price for all this is that it's slow, of course. Really, really slow.