saw this article on Slashdot....the author Marco has a touch of that starry-eyed, open-source, information-wants-to-be-free thing going and they roasted him for it, as well for his methodology, writing ability, conclusions, and anything else they could think of. but Slashdot is kind of a tough crowd anyway, no?
some good stuff in it, nonetheless
somebody on /. referenced this
MS-backed study of p2p and darknet technologies in the same thread - it's an interesting read and you gotta love the conclusion:
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There seem to be no technical impediments to darknet-based peer-to-peer file sharing technologies growing in convenience, aggregate bandwidth and efficiency. The legal future of darknet-technologies is less certain, but we believe that, at least for some classes of user, and possibly for the population at large, efficient darknets will exist.
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