P-to-P goes Hollywood - BitTorrent co-founder talks up business plans and death of DRM.(Ashwin Navin)(Interview)

By InfoWorld Staff

With all the legal disputes arising from P-to-P (peer to peer) file sharing networks such as Napster, Gnutella, and KaZaa in recent years, it's easy to forget that the concept of P-to-P networks is almost as old as the Internet itself. In fact, decentralized networks that harness the computing resources of hosts rather than servers are behind services as diverse as Usenet and IRC.

Since the late 1990s, however, the term P2P been sullied by its association with illegal online music and video swapping, not to mention software piracy. Now the folks over at BitTorrent hope to change that. In recent weeks, the San Francisco company has taken …