A white paper from the Software & Information Industry Association which examines the present and future potential of peer-to-peer networking.
The popularity of peer-to-peer technologies such as Napster in the consumer marketplace alerted the business market to the potential advantages in a peer-to-peer distribution system.
This white paper addresses some of the technological hurdles that peer-to-peer must surmount, as well as the possible upsides and downsides of peer-to-peer business models.
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