Chapter 1 at a Glance
The purpose of these chapter overviews, which you find on the back of each chapter’s opening page, is to indicate the order in which material is presented and thus make it easier to find a particular section from its context. See it as a local subset of the table of contents, only with some contextual reference.
The highlighted words are the main headings in the chapter, which introduce second-level headings in the list items. Ideally, you would have the same hyperlink capability to jump directly to each section as I have on my screen, but Alas, earwax.…
This overview chapter is designed to give a background in broad strokes on computer-mediated peer-to-peer systems. The goal is to find a workable and meaningful definition ...
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