Tribler: BitTorrent and Beyond

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 16, 2009 6:04 PM EDT
Linux Journal; By Doc Searls
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P2P (peer-to-peer) is the nature of the Net. You can fight that, or you can embrace it. Here in the US, the mainstream entertainment business has mostly been fighting it. Hollywood and its phone and cable company allies have long regarded P2P, and BitTorrent in particular, as a copyright piracy system and a bandwidth hog. In the European Union, however, P2P is more than accepted: it's supported by the Union itself.

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