From Jim Gilliam's blog archives
Salon: The Gnutella Paradox: File-sharing
September 29, 2000 7:11 AM
Salon: The Gnutella Paradox: File-sharing systems work best when they reach critical mass. That's why Napster has continued to grow; with 30 million users the odds are in your favor that one or two of them will have what you need. But as soon as a file-sharing system has critical mass, it's big enough and threatening enough to become the copyright protectorate's next legal target; and those file-trading masses are also going to strain the network to its capacity and beyond.
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