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Originally posted by JackSpratts
Internet peer-to-peer file-swapping programs that strike fear into the hearts of recording artists and distributors -- such as Gnutella and Napster
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Maybe the guy should have taken some English classes along with the journalism ones...
I had no idea Gnutella and Napster are recording artists and distributors.
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"The way Gnutella is 'wired' -- without regard to the underlying Internet -- might make a message from New York to San Francisco pass through Tokyo."
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So might a regular Internet message, technically. Even currently there are all kinds of business and political reasons that cause packets destined to my neighbour (who's on a different ISP) go half-way around the world instead of some local interchange point.
Makes me wonder if those 'researchers' got a grant for this 'study'.
