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Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet
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Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet

by Bo Leuf
June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 43m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 12. P2P Case Studies

Practical peer technology experience to a large extent is as distributed as the technology itself. Many readers have no doubt already experienced some aspect of p2p in one situation or another, often without realizing it was p2p. File sharing, messaging, or some form of Web service at their best are just a natural and transparent extension of a user intention. And it’s really quite amazing in how short a time we take a revolutionary innovation for granted.

Attempting to summarize the state of p2p with well-chosen case studies proves more difficult than anticipated, although one excuse is that most of the field is still highly experimental. Even widely deployed implementations frequently employ beta-test versions ...

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