Esta captura corresponde a un representación fragmentada del funcionamiento de una
red P2P, en este caso la que usa el programa
Gnutella. Por si alguno no sabe que es lo que eso es,
El Fantasma Azul es una red P2P. Esto quiere decir que la información no se baja de un servidor en la red, sino que se comparte con otro usuario conectado a la red. Pero si ustedes ven el diagrama y no llegan a entender que coño significan todos esos circulitos de colores, como fue mi caso, los autores del gráfico lo explican
acá:
Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks are perhaps the most innovative new information space to emerge on the Internet in recent years. These new networks have attracted many users and much press attention, along with the ire of some powerful media corporations and trade organisations who feel threatened by this alternative, bottom-up mode of information distribution. Some commentators see P2P networks as offering a significantly more 'democratic', perhaps even 'anarchic', information topography and engendering new forms of online social structures completely lacking in central points of organisation. P2P breaks down the dominant information distribution paradigm on the Internet, the client-server model of the Web [1].
P2P networks are, of course, most popular for sharing mp3 music files and much of this interaction involves the 'trading' of copyright materials or 'content'. As such these networks are a key component of the so called 'darknet', an informal cluster technologies and communities for users to share digital content [2]. The bastions of the media industries, most particularly the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), have attempted to choke-off the development and use of P2P networks, by various means, as they see them simply as conduits for wholesale digital theft [3].
Por este lado, en cambio tienen
un sitio con un amplio listado de los programas que usan redes P2P. Y finalmente por
allá, un artículo que intenta explicar porqué el
MP3 no logró acabar con la industria discográfica como se suponía que iba a hacer.
