-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Surely the big benefits of peer to peer is it takes control way from the center - which will never go down well in Washington when the big Digital Publishers are being so successful at pushing through legislation via WIPO etc. The truely novel P2P systems are only just appearing, but already networks like freenet are largely immune to the slashdot type effect, although last time I tried it, it would self destruct at now and then for no obvious reason. I don't think the politicians will like things like freenet when they finally understand what it is intended to do, but I'm still explaining bits of it to geeks so they are safe for a bit. Chess over freenet was working last time I tried it, but winning against a truely anonymous opponent is less rewarding that beating someone you know, if only vaguely. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBNLF1GFXfHI9FVgYRAvb9AJwMjBTJKkREMlqE1we5h5OF/veuPACeMHeC tgS4LwbP9+DDlJIAYHeW0hQ= =1hk1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----