The legitimate uses for P2P technology may thus suffer a severe setback.

ECONOMIST: Online pirates forced to walk the plank

While peer-to-peer sharing certainly gets its fair share of critics, the sharing, caring approach to distributing media definitely has its useful (and legal) benefits, and now NDS has announced "two new product enhancements of Synamedia Metro, the NDS IPTV middleware solution, " which looks to bring P2P technology to the DVR.

ENGADGET: NDS announces P2P-enabled DVR solution

He started Skyrider, oddly enough, to create technology to disrupt the open-source P2P networks.

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For every new tool that helps consumers work together in the P2P economy, the potential for similar advances in government surveillance technology increases.

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P2P systems would slow, but would probably be too narrowly specific to end, the growth of firms exploiting the technology.

ECONOMIST: Peer-to-peer