I have been very pleased to see Napsterites with programming skills coming forward and sharing their p2p knowledge and software with all of us! Kudos to all of you!
IMO what is happening here at NU is representative of a new phase in the p2p revolution. More and more people have realized that commercial p2p ventures are not the best bedfellows in filesharing and community formation. They are simply too selfish, too unpredictable and too unreliable in their relations to their clientele. They cannot be trusted to provide the infrastructure for something as precious as the global p2p ecology. And being inherently just moneymaking machines they will always remain an easy prey to the copyright nazis. At the end of the day we will be much better off by providing everything we need ourselves in the form of open protocols and open source p2p software. We want no commercial strings attached, no spyware embedded, no hidden networks lurking in our computers - just a safe and enjoyable peer to peer experience to enrichen our life. It's a fair wish and I have no doubt that given some time the technically gifted 'supernodes' in our brain-to-brain network will provide us just that.
- tg
