The Internet is both the product of peer networks and an astonishingly effective enabler of them.
Johnson adds that the most critical means of moving women into leadership, is, you got it, powerful peer-to-peer networks.
Besides, why not sell downloads if you aren't making any money on all the downloading going on at peer-to-peer networks?
Copyright owners blame the peer-to-peer networks for enabling rampant piracy, and say they're responsible for slumping music sales and lost revenue.
If peer networks can't help us tackle issues as big as global warming and national security, what good are they, really?
Peer networks, by contrast, consist of individuals of roughly equal status achieving goals by sharing, criticizing and revising information and ideas.
At the low end it could soon be clipped by peer-to-peer networks.
He notes that, like all grass-roots organizations, peer networks can be disrupted by fanatics, but self-correction mechanisms can usually overcome such glitches.
Peer-to-peer networks use the millions of PCs worldwide to create a significantly dumber but much larger version of Akamai's global distribution network.
He believes that peer-to-peer networks will decline and legitimate services will grow.
Indeed, other research shows that the majority of files downloaded from peer-to-peer networks simply sit idle on hard drives, never to be accessed.
Peer progressives, though, believe that good can be accomplished by all organizations, in any combination, if they harness the power of peer networks.
Mr. Johnson envisions a new political movement that embraces the potential of peer networks to improve government, medicine, education and journalism, among much else.
Worms and viruses will use any available channel to spread, as recipients of infected email attachments, visitors to websites loaded with malicious software and users of peer-to-peer networks can all testify.
Technology veteran Edward Kozel has a simple philosophy about a scourge of the Internet--the peer-to-peer networks that let millions of users illegally swap pirated movies, songs and software: If you can't beat 'em, make a buck off 'em.
The alert system "will help ensure an Internet that works for everyone by alerting families of illegal activity that has occurred over peer-to-peer networks using their Internet accounts and educate them on how they can prevent such activity from happening again, " Michael O'Leary, an executive for the MPAA, said in a statement Tuesday.
The most significant consequence of these three developments is that, because command-and-control is unsustainable in our new wiki world, the biggest challenge facing traditional organizations is whether or not they can transform themselves from top-down hierarchies to peer-to-peer networks before someone else comes along, creates a competing peer-to-peer network, and puts them out of business.
This occurs through peer-to-peer activist networks, international environmental NGO campaigns, and shared ideological and political frameworks.
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Keller adds his claim to two other hacking allegations against WikiLeaks in just the past week: Tiversa, a small security firm based in Pennsylvania, told Bloomberg that WikiLeaks had actively grabbed as many as half of its files from unwitting users on peer-to-peer filesharing networks.
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Data from online media measurement firm Big Champagne indicate that the most swapped shows on traditional peer-to-peer and BitTorrent networks tend to also be among the highest rated when aired on TV.
Valerie Caproni, General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, complained to the House Judiciary Committee in February that her agency lacked powers to gather evidence on stalkers using peer-to-peer and social networks.
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That, the company argues, will prevent the ripped DVD files from ending up on Bittorrent or other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
According to market research firm Big Champagne, there were on average 8.7 million simultaneous users on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks in May of this year.
The most common piracy networks are peer-to-peer (P2P) and torrents.
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Kozel, an 18-year veteran of Cisco Systems, can choose from dozens of thriving peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and they now churn out almost 40% of all Net traffic, says Ellacoya Networks, a firm in Merrimack, N.
We need to have a lifelong set of peer-teachers on whom we can rely to thrive and social networks provide that ever-changing network of peers.
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Last month, the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab began tracking the online ad networks that place the most advertising on website that facilitate peer-to-peer sharing of pirated digital content.
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The growth of peer-to-peer file sharing - both legal and illegal - has also placed a significant burden on their networks.
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