October 18, 2003



How Will P2P File-Sharing Evolve Under Present Hostile Threats?

 


The RIAA has taken us on a tour of networking strategies in the last few years, by constantly changing the environment file-sharing systems operate in. In hostile environments, organisms often adapt to become less energetic but harder to kill, and so it is now.

With the RIAA's waves of legal attacks driving experimentation with decentralized file-sharing tools, file-sharing networks have progressively traded efficiency for resistance to legal attack.

The RIAA has slowly altered the environment so that relatively efficient systems like Napster were killed, opening up a niche for more decentralized systems like Gnutella and Kazaa. With their current campaign against Kazaa in full swing, we are about to see another shift in network design, one that will have file sharers adopting tools originally designed for secure collaboration in a corporate setting. -

More at Clay Shirky's Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source:
File Sharing Go Social, a must read article.


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posted by Robin Good on Saturday, October 18 2003, updated on Saturday, January 21 2006


 

 

 

 

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