January 28, 2004
Interoperable P2P
News.com reports on Streamcast’s new interoperability with non-Gnutella networks. The article mentions some negatives – I wonder how they could be avoided with some clever programming and cooperation between various services. Also: would those problems be more avoidable if we actually let centralized P2P survive? (As I’ve said before, I agree to an extent with the Napster decision, but I believe that the result should have better protected the technology such that it could be used in legal ways. No one can create a centralized P2P system right now because it would be (near?) impossible to filter perfectly. For that reason, centralized P2P development was significantly curtailed.)
Filed by Derek Slater at 10:44 am under General news
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