For the people that don't understand, it is very likely to be a scam :
The idea of paying for a decentralized peer-to-peer Internet is totally contradictory. If you get money to run nodes, then you'll inevitably end up with centralised nodes !
The fact that this copy of freenet omit to quote freenet and claim to be a new idea is the proof that MaidSafe is highly dodgy.
It could also be a manipulation to pump the price of MasterCoin up as the price per MSC is fixed.
The whole point of safecoin is that when you contribute a node, the P2P is enhanced.
Similar to Bitcoin in the sense that when you mine the coin, the P2P network becomes more secure.
Different from Bitcoin is that your node does contribute real value in terms of storage (and possibly other resources in the future).
I heard David Irvine speak and he sounds very idealistic and is on a mission.