It will be smuggled in, just like PCs were 20 years ago. Code plus law equals a threat to the development of P2P, and more importantly, an assault on basic public rights. To get a handle on the conference, we talked with Tim O'Reilly and asked him to point out a few conference highlights. Forget about it. No, says Clay Shirky, and that's why freeriding is a non-issue.
Trouble is, there's no trouble.
P2P is not a Tragedy of the Digital Commons, it's a Cornucopia. It's about peers operating on the edge of the Internet, a place where IP addresses are transitory and connectivity is intermittent. Other documents about this topic Below are other references available on the web for this topic. Since other sites may change their links, please let us know if you find any that may need to be updated. At this point, the hype and fanfare surrounding P2P smells an awful lot like the hoopla that surrounded push technology.