Sharing is a virtue

摘要

NAPSTER INC. AND MP3 RECENTLY HAVE BEEN IN THE NEWS BECAUSE OF COPY-right issues. But that is just a diversion from the real issue of a grass roots effort to build peer-to-peer networking (PPN) over the Internet. In spite of the court injunction against Napster, the importance of PPN in the future of the Internet, the Web, and extensible markup language (XML) is undiminished. Because the Internet is decentralized by its nature, the issues that surround Napster have no significant impact on it. PPN is a protocol, beyond any legal issues.