Preface
It’s been many years since Brendan Kehoe wrote Zen and the Art of the Internet to demystify some of the key ideas behind “the Net,” including how to use e-mail, share files, and create Web pages using HTML. When Zen and the Art of the Internet was published, Amazon.com was barely a year old. Can you imagine life without Amazon, Netflix, or Google?
More recently, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about the legality of file sharing and whether it promotes innovation or invites theft from movie studios and record companies. Can you imagine modern music distribution without an MP3 player or iPod?
And indeed, this is where our story begins, because file sharing using advanced peer-to-peer networking technology is finally delivering on ...
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