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Originally Posted by JAppi
You are very misguided if you believe that p2p is not for illegal purposes. The orginal purpose of napster was to share music.
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The original purpose of bittorrent was to enable easy distribution of things such as linux ISOs. The original purpose of freenet was to establish an alternative to the internet in which privacy was virtually assured. Peer to peer is a far bigger concept than any particular purpose you might think for it, it is simply an alternative model for electronically distributing information to the client-server model, which has risen in those areas in which client-server is becoming inadequate. With the proliferation of broadband, I wouldn't be surprised if peer to peer ends up being the basis on which most of the internet runs eventually, once the necessary protocols become seamlessly and ubiquitously integrated into the necessary software.