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Discovering P2P

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Citing the backcover: "Incisive, Opinonated Coverage of Applications That Have Captured the IT World's Attention".
Let's translate this: "Superficial Enumeration of Applications".
This book does not provide any deeper information about P2P applications. Also the section about business models is not well founded and does not provide any helpful information. I was really disappointed!

The book gives a good explanation of p2p networks as they were understood at the time of writing in 2001. Napster, of course. But also Gnutella and SETI@home.

However, if you are new to p2p, you may want to search out more recent texts. There has been a lot of developments since 2001. Most notably with the rise of Bram Cohen's BitTorrent, and its novel use of downloaders to act as uploaders for files. Another factor is that the use of various p2p networks did appear to lead to the music industry's weak sales in recent years. While BitTorrent is now proving to be a worry to the film studios.

Not very readable, didn't find it interesting, after going through the first part of the book i put it somewhere and never bothered to completely read it.