Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-Peer Networks

Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-Peer Networks, 9780471463696 (0471463698), John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Peer-to-peer computing has gained a lot of prominence and publicity in the past years. Several start-up companies offer software packages that can be used for building peer-to-peer overlay networks for applications such as file sharing and music swapping. However, the legal and ethical questions associated with swapping copyrighted material on the Internet have clouded the entire peer-to-peer technology industry and given peer-to-peer networks a bad name. Many companies and universities have banned peerto-peer networks because of copyright infringement issues.

The vitriolic legal debate over copyright violations has the potential danger of eclipsing many different legitimate applications that can be developed over peer-to-peer networks. Such networks offer decentralized domains of control and an increased level of parallelism and are extremely resilient to failures of machines and network. As a result, peer-to-peer technology can be used to develop many new applications that would benefit from the unique features offered by the peer-to-peer architecture. Some companies already offer peer-to-peer software for applications such as instant messaging, search engines, and data storage.

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