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To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (41342)	2/19/2001 7:33:19 PM
From: ms.smartest.person	of 64865

Peer-to-Peering Into the Future by Farhad Manjoo 2:00 a.m. Feb. 15, 2001 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- At the opening of the first-ever peer-to-peer networking conference here on Wednesday, it was hard to find anyone who was at all morose about Monday's stinging courtroom blow to Napster. Indeed, despite the gloomy future of the phenomenally popular music-trading application, the assembled pioneers of P2P appeared to be in an immutable state of awe over their emerging technology. P2P -- which essentially abandons the networking notions of separate "clients" and "servers" and instead allows every networked machine to connect to another machine -- will not only be huge, they said, it will be revolutionary. As big as the Web itself (or perhaps a replacement for the Web), and no mere courtroom decision would hinder it . wired.com New Peer-to-Peer Designs chat board slashdot.org

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