... the technology alive, even when it recieved death from the entertainment industry on February 12, 2001.(P2P History, p.1) In between, the free Napster peaked with a user base of thirteen million users, which out peaked AOL and saw a record 2.7 billion music downloads. It became the fastest growing piece of software ever in the history of computing. Napster, however was not a pure peer-to ... to come into existance include PeerCast, and Streamer. Giles Goddard, the creator of the PeerCast program and Iain McLeod the main man behind Streamer are both two self-emplyed computer game develop...

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