Thursday, October 07, 2004
Technology Review: Peer-to-Peer Comes Clean
Technology Review: Peer-to-Peer Comes Clean
"Despite ongoing efforts to blackball it, peer-to-peer technology is fast gaining ground. P2P gets its bad reputation for being the mechanism that powers those massive copyright-violation systems like Kazaa and Morpheus. But as I wrote a year ago in this space, this technology can be used for good: It has the power to strengthen the Internet against terrorist attack, allow even the smallest publishers to distribute information to the multitudes, and protect controversial information against censorship and suppression."
"Despite ongoing efforts to blackball it, peer-to-peer technology is fast gaining ground. P2P gets its bad reputation for being the mechanism that powers those massive copyright-violation systems like Kazaa and Morpheus. But as I wrote a year ago in this space, this technology can be used for good: It has the power to strengthen the Internet against terrorist attack, allow even the smallest publishers to distribute information to the multitudes, and protect controversial information against censorship and suppression."