Foreword
Like the Web, peer to peer (p2p) networking grew rapidly out of user desire. Whether sharing music, pictures, or conversation, the user urge to connect on a one-to-one basis, without the intervention of a centralized governing authority, seems to express a fundamental human need.
Again like the Web, the initial growth of peer technologies came from mainly non-commercial motivations. Indeed, in for instance the case of Napster, it came from downright anti-commercial motivations! Now, p2p comes to the range of its adoption curve where many of the most egregious excesses of file swapping are being tamed, and the business community is trying to figure out how to take advantage of the tremendous natural energy that’s apparent in the millions ...
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