Using peer-to-peer (P2P) methods of content storage or file sharing is certainly not a new phenomenon. Dating back to the late
1990s and the glory days of Napster, P2P has alternatively served as a blessing for greedy consumers, a scourge for possessive
content owners and a bandwidth weight hanging around the necks of network operators. Yet with the fall of P2P clients and
applications such as Kazaa and eDonkey, and the neutering of Napster, some of the fervor surrounding illegal file sharing over
P2P and the necessity to stop it has been quieted. The question now is: How much does P2P still matter as a technology, to both
content owners and network operators?
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