Peer-to-Peer Networking: Not Dead Yet.
Multichannel News, June, 2001 by ILER, DAVID
The Dracula of the Internet, Napster Inc., may have a stake in its heart. But it's not the last bandwidth-sucker cable operators will face when it comes to peer-to-peer (P2P) applications or services. In fact, even as Napster-like pirate services such as Gnutella and Morpheus crop up, legitimate and legal P2P apps are also becoming prevalent.
Although Napster was universally decried for violating content-creators' copyrights, it did prove that P2P is a viable network model. Millions of users, directed by a central computer, exchanged files with each other in a seamless, easy-to-use manner. If only it were legal. Yet P2P is far from dead. Companies such as CenterSpan Communications Corp., GameSpy Industries and Groove Networks have...
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