RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

["Martin J. Levy" <mahtin () mahtin com>]

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