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  • Writing file sharing's final chapter

    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.

  • P2P: Your own pet Napster

    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?

  • Why we need, and will have, P2P

    The potential of P2P seems to be immense - but like most new ideas it's potentially a double-edged sword, and a lot of confusion surrounds it.

  • Reuters reports P2P uptake

    Reuters is considering peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing to deliver content and services. It believes it has spotted a way to make cost savings from this emerging new architecture, popularised by the Napster music-sharing service.

  • Is distributed computing a crime?

    David McOwen, the developer of a distributed computing project, has been threatened with legal action for downloading third-party software. The question the McOwen case raises is this: Can people go to jail for unauthorised installations of such programs?

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