Peer-to-peering into the future

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Author: JT Smith

Wired.com has a story about the O-Reilly peer-to-peer conference this week, asking people like Ian Clarke, “the brash, young, P2P-evangelizing founder of Freenet, a
still-in-development P2P network,” about the future of P2P. He says: “The music industry did not win this. They may have won the battle, but
the collateral damage — in terms of fan loyalty, etc. — was substantial, so much that I doubt they’d ever
do something like this again.”