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A high-profile Internet phone group plans to take a leaf out of Napster's book to help PC networks make free phone calls.
All it took was a bunch of swiped songs before nifty names such as Napster and MP3 popped up. Then the phrase peer-to-peer (P2P) became part of our lexicon and vendors jumped on the bandwagon and built a raft of so-called P2P products. Hi tech derivatives, trend predictions and P2P philosophy are now in full force. What's hype and what's real?
While the first generation of file-trading technologies fights over Napster's leavings, more radical Net programmers are still committed to building a wholly anonymous, virtually untraceable way of communicating and trading files online.
Computer scientist and entrepreneur Gene Kan draws lessons from the history of P2P to warn what often happens when people get overly excited about new technologies.
Napster founder Shawn Fanning is back in business, with a new vision of label-approved file trading.
Whether you give your employees free rein when it comes to peer-to-peer applications or prohibit their use, it's important for you to take a position on the issue. Here's a policy that can give you some guidance.
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M-Terra CTO Darrell Smith says that arguments in the peer-to-peer file-sharing space are still based on days gone by.
Former file-swapping wunderkind Sean Fanning has signed up to help CD-burning technology company Roxio build a reborn Napster service--but with a difference.
Peer-to-peer computing is hot, but what are we going to share now that we can't share music for free?
KaZaa borrows best-of-breed features from Napster and Gnutella, but it serves up ads if you're not careful. Does this all add up to heavenly downloads? We'll tell you.
In the shark-infested world of peer-to-peer file sharing BearShare is an unobtrusive delight, marred only by a low success rate in downloading files.
KaZaA's gotten a lot of bad press lately for ethically dubious software bundling schemes. Is the application behind the furore worth checking out?
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