While the RIAA continues to be short-sighted in their thinking about digital distribution, the deal on the table from Napster gives them a sure-fire way of breaking out of their 50 year old business model and an easy way to take part in the digital download market, which they have failed at horribly up to this point.

The next challenge for Gnutella developers involves a different way of thinking about scalability.

A few notes from the P2P Discussion with Ray Ozzie (Groove), Ian Clark (Freenet), Johnny Deep (AIMster), and Gene Kan (Gnutella). Clay Shirky, moderator. Wednesday, Feb. 14, O'Reilly P2P Conference.

Stanford University is installing new network equipment that will allow them to give "entertainment" use of the network a lower priority than other traffic. Currently, the Stanford community is consuming more bandwidth than is currently available.

Real Networks will begin streaming NBA games live, helping solidify a future for them selling sports package deals over the internet much like the cable packages we see today.