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STRUCTURE 08: Anagran Founder Lawrence Roberts Fights P2P

Posted on June 25, 2008

Lawrence Roberts, the founder of Anagran and a chief architect of the foundations of the Internet, has a mission: help control P2P file-sharing traffic, which makes up a massive 80 percent of Internet traffic, he says. There are a lot of inequities in the current Internet system. . . . P2P isn t the most efficient way to do things But as companies like his help us start to control the situation, Roberts says we should see the P2P hogs dying down over the next few years. That will allow for other services to have a better response time, and normal traffic will have more growth over 2 to...

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