Peer Community
A lot of p2p discussion is just about the technology, and one can see definitions of the term that fully reflect that view, such as the one given by Peer to Peer Working Group (www.peer-to-peerwg.org)—perhaps one of the better definitions, even though it seems to ignore the communicative aspect (that is, IM) altogether.
Peer-to-Peer Defined: Peer-to-peer computing is sharing of computer resources and services by direct exchange.
I tried to go beyond this computer-limited view, even though most of this book (especially Part II) is very deep on technological detail, by sandwiching it between history, analogy, and legality views in Part I, and the social and personal views here in Part III. In fact, much of peer technology can be ...
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