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Ed Felten's tinyp2p

Ed Felten's tinyp2p

Posted Dec 15, 2004 20:41 UTC (Wed) by copsewood (subscriber, #199)
Parent article: Ed Felten's tinyp2p

Not sure what it is to do with P2P that legislation could ban anyway, given that Sendmail was P2P more than 2 decades ago. Is any lawmakers seriously considering banning any program which contains both client and server functionality ? Even if they do, people will still just implement P2P networks using seperate client and server programs, unless they ban the Internet and have done with it. So I think the point Ed is making with this one is moot.


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Ed Felten's tinyp2p - I have a 0 lines of code P2P network

Posted Dec 16, 2004 0:37 UTC (Thu) by Tara_Li (subscriber, #26706) [Link]

Hell, what about good old-fashioned sneaker-net? Files crossed the country in a couple of weeks, not a couple of minutes, but even sneaker-net was pretty damn good! Remember those days of Computer Club meetings, when you brought your stack of floppies?

Think the new version: LAN parties.

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