Remaking the Peer-to-Peer Meme
"This essay is an excerpt from the forth-coming book Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Disruptive Potential of Collaborative Networking. It presents the goals that drive the developers of the best-known peer-to-peer systems, the problems they’ve faced, and the technical solutions they’ve found. The book will be available at the O’Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference in February and in bookstores in March."