Bringing P2P file-sharing out of the shadows, Part 1

...trying to suppress this phenomenon results in driving the technology underground. While this continues to eat away at the entertainment industry's bottom line, some in the industry want to rethink the role of P2P.

The growth rate for illegal downloading of copyrighted material via peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services slowed during 2006, while use of their legal counterparts picked up, according to recent research.

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