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P2P and the promise of internet equality

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Agre, Philip E.·2003·Communications of the ACM
DOI 10.1145/606272.606298
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Technologies often come wrapped in stories about politics. These stories may not explain the motives of the technologists, but they do often explain the social energy that propels the technology into the larger world. In the case of P2P technologies, the official engineering story is that computational effort should be distributed to reflect the structure of the problem. But the engineering story does not explain the strong feelings P2P computing often evokes. The strong feelings derive from a political story, often heatedly disavowed by technologists but widespread in the culture: P2P delivers on the Internet's promise of decentralization. By minimizing the role of centralized computing elements, the story goes, P2P systems will be immune to censorship, monopoly, regulation, and other exercises of centralized authority.

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  • Agre instils the reasonable doubt that decentralized architectures do not necessarily match with decentralized institutions and vice versa.

    “Agre [58], referring to the previous wave of peerto-peer architectures originated with file sharing, instils the reasonable doubt that decentralized architectures do not necessarily match with decentralized institutions and vice versa.”

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Authors
Agre, P. E.
Affiliations
University of California, Los Angeles (US)
Corresponding author
Agre, Philip E.
Venue
Communications of the ACM
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
2003-02
Volume
46
Issue
2
Pages
39-42
ISSN
  • 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7317
DOI
10.1145/606272.606298
OpenAlex
W1977790828
Cited by
70
References
15
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
9.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Copyright and Intellectual Property
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
Keywords
peer-to-peer computing, decentralization, censorship resistance, central authority, distributed computing, internet regulation

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