Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

Mon Aug 30 23:12:31 UTC 2004

Sean,

>There were lots of FTP mirrors around.
>Every Sun workstation could have a Anonymous FTP.  Of course, the problem
>was every Sun workstation could be an Anonymous FTP :-)

... but you forgot to mention that filtering and firewalls and NAT were not in common use, hence everywhere was accessible from everywhere.  P2P was all there was.

Martin