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Originally posted by napho
if we want the free movies, appz , and music to continue.
With spyware being parachuted in while we download it's becoming tougher to fight.
I'm willing to surrender to Cydoor and Aureate in order to continue to get the goods.
How about you guys?  
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I don't buy that.
You have the free software movement, which has produced such heavy hitters like Apache, Sendmail, Linux, BSD, Samba, Mozilla/Netscape, too many others to mention, all without receiving a single penny in compensation, without a single banner ad served. It would seem like a P2P network would be a piece of cake.
Gnutella was released, and people hacked away on it for months now. All that has to happen is for common protocol to emerge, so all the disparate networks (which do interoperate to some degree) come together. The FastTrack-style multi-tiered network architecture has been proposed for Gnutella almost right away, and some clients implement in various ways already. New research is occuring right now into better ways to organize the network, so that the network is better connected and searches are more exhaustive. Given time something will emerge, and you won't have to punch the X button (or the monkey) to use it.