Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet

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Bit	First insight line
1.1	Some p2p technology is more about marketing than product.
1.2	There’s far more to p2p than popularized MP3 file swapping.
1.3	Metcalfe’s Law: Network value rises by the square of the number of terminals.
1.4	Fragmenting a network dramatically reduces the perceived value.
1.5	Gilder's Law: Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power (both with regard to total network capacity).
1.6	The Black Box Law: Networks evolve towards high-bandwidth, dumb pipes, with intelligence spread to the machines at their peripheries.
1.7	People talk—with each other, directly.
1.8	Modern p2p connectivity is usually transient, not permanent.
1.9	P2P assumes some form of end-to-end connectivity.
1.10	People use technologies ...