The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications will mean a major transformation for the Internet, and a decline in the relative importance of centralised Web applications. By 2004, most large ...

The number of consumers using peer-to-peer (P2P) services to download music declined 17 percent between 2011 and 2012. As a result, the volume of illegally downloaded music files from P2P services ...

跌跌撞撞，终究归入尘土。此后，中国真的再无P2P。 11月27日，银保监会首席律师刘福寿对外透露，互联网金融风险大幅压降，全国实际运营的P2P网贷机构由高峰时期的约5000家逐渐压降，到今年11月中旬完全归零。 一句表态， 名噪一时的P2P惨淡谢幕了。 2007年6月 ...

Every few years, someone predicts the imminent collapse of the Internet. Bob Metcalfe–Ethernet inventor, 3Com founder, and Technology Review patron–famously said at a 1995 Web conference that he would ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet traffic, despite having grown at a torrid pace for years, will grow ...

While Skype is now a Microsoft-owned behemoth, its early days were very different. Skype’s heritage goes back to KaZaa, a P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing application that was one of the pillars of the ...

Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance camera, network attached storage device, or home automation gizmo, only to find that it secretly and constantly phones home to a vast peer-to-peer (P2P) ...

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Although the Internet is very much a client/server network, there are file-sharing technologies that enable users to create a P2P environment over the public Internet. The one that got the most ...

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