p2p network

When Spotify launched their first beta in the fall of 2008, we branded it “an alternative to music piracy.”

Having the option to stream millions of tracks supported by an occasional ad, or free of ads for a small monthly fee, Spotify appeared to be serious competitor to music piracy.

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The Japanese Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) has published an elaborate study that examined the effect of piracy on sales and rentals of Japanese anime DVDs.

The results are quite remarkable.

Ten years ago this week, online music pioneer Justin Frankel released a little application dubbed Gnutella that enabled file sharing through a distributed P2P network.

Do you know how BitTorrent works?

I mean, really know the technology behind it?