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Peering into the future of content delivery. (The peer-to-peer evolution).

By Hayes, Duffy
Publication: CED
Date: Monday, April 1 2002

Something good may still come out of the chaos created when file-sharing service Napster was unleashed on the Internet world.

No, not free music for everybody. More like a productive application of the innovative peer-to-peer architecture in the growing market for streaming media and the advanced delivery of rich media content.

The brilliance of the Napster model was its distributed nature--making each user's PC a "node" on a distribution network by tapping into users' idle bandwidth to deliver a media file from a location as close to the request as possible

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