Exothermicus
join:2007-05-24
Denton, TX
| Everything is copyrighted.
Everything is copyrighted, the difference between legal and illegal downloads is whether the copyright holder wants their content made available or not.
You cannot point to any one P2P program / protocol as being legal or illegal. Only the individual file and the original source of it's content knows it's legal status.
From a network topology standpoint, the idea of setting up local peers within the ISP's own network would result in a significant decrease of external backbone bandwidth requirements. The problem has been how to do this with existing P2P programs.
I have yet to read any thing on this new P4P system, but honestly, with the recent incidents of flash banner-ads being a source of malware, then how is a new P2P protocol going to get a following without being an open source project. Just searched, while Pando is free and claims to be clean, I saw no source code, no thanks.
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