They are getting better and better at being able to acquire a full feature movie at no cost. This has naturally angered and threatned the Motion Picture Assocaition of America, or in other words the MPAA. The MPAA has been looking to slow, stall, and evitalbly kill all forms of filesharing (p2p) that allow its movies to be downloaded freely without its authority. The same goes for the Recording Industry Association of America, or the RIAA. They too have been fighting an uphill battle against the P2P communitity in its desire to ride the world filesharing. So far, they have been able to slow the technology down, but they have not been able to do much else. If anything, filesharing is on the rise, with millions of users sharing billions of files with each other. .
Where else do we see P2P?.
P2P is not just for poor college kids. P2P is in the inital stages of becoming a legitimate business tool. Last september, in San Francisco, at a brainstorming session called the Peer-to-Peer Summit, some of the most prestigious names in P2P technologly came together to brainstorm about the future of P2P. "The high calibur group hased out ideas on how P2P will affect users and the high tech industry. They also talked about obstacles the nascent technology faces. There was much debate throughout the day, but they all agreed on one thing: P2P communication and collaboration will overhaul Internet-based computing as we know it" (Tech Leaders talk up potential, p.1). They discussed the obstacltes currently holding P2P down, which include bandwidth constraits, and corporate firewalls. Intel Coroprations cheif P2P officer, Robert Knightenon even went as far as to state "P2P will be as big as the Web was to the internet." While P2P is on the rise, there are several negative issues becoming more prevelent in the filesharing community. "Among the obstacles to such freedom are bandwidth constraits and corporate firewals.
