On 19-jan-04, at 23:55, Dean Anderson wrote:
As Kazaa, Napster, Groove, and other protocols have demonstrated, its
quite easy to create peer-to-peer applications without either expensive
external infrastructure or fixed, unique IP addresses.
These protocols require that at least one side in each transfer is
capable of receiving inbound sessions. This can work if the user has a
NAT and configures it such that inbound sessions are forwarded
appropriately, but it can NOT work if the NATting is done by a service
provider of some kind without any way for the user to configure this
NAT box.
The scalability of
these protocols has threatened the Music and Movie Industries--and
thats
really something. I wouldn't have thought such a thing possible ten
years
ago.
So what else is new. In Shakespeare's time there were people that went
to plays, memorizing them for later copying and performing the play
without paying the author. And remember these are the same people that
thought the VCR would kill their business.