RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

Sean,

There were lots of FTP mirrors around. Every Sun workstation could have a Anonymous FTP. Of course, the problem was every Sun workstation could be an Anonymous FTP :-)

... but you forgot to mention that filtering and firewalls and NAT were not in common use, hence everywhere was accessible from everywhere. P2P was all there was. Martin