Next-Generation File Sharing with Social Networks (O'Reilly)

[Posted March 10, 2004 by cook]

Robert Kaye writes about the evolution of peer to peer networks on O'Reilly. "Combining file sharing applications with social networks enables people to create a trusted network of their friends to keep out the bad guys. The definition of bad guys is up to the user to determine -- in a lot of cases, the bad guys would be the lovely folks slinging lawsuits. But these networks can easily be used for legitimate non-infringing uses, such as sharing personal information with a network of friends while keeping it out of reach of marketers and identity thieves."

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