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First blog for all Quorten's blog-like writings

Very seldom do you hear the general public talk about advanced software technology. And when they do, they often times have a twisted and highly inaccurate understanding of how the technology works. The old order of peer-to-peer software operating during the late 1990s and early 2000s couldn’t be a better example. For the most part, in modern times, peer-to-peer software has fallen out of the purview of the mainstream media and is largely considered defunct in popular culture. At least that’s what my understanding is. For all peer-to-peer software that has entered the purview of popular culture, all of it was shut down by court orders. Virtually all of the remaining peer-to-peer software operating in the modern era is somewhere deep within geekdom: Windows software updates, Blizzard Updater for World of Warcraft, open-source software updates, content distribution network nodes, and so on.

As for the Wikipedia articles on the subjects, there is clearly a subjective bias on standpoint, leaning more heavily toward the geek culture than the mainstream culture, but a read through the Talk pages does bring in more of the viewpoint of popular culture.

20190814/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_file_sharing
20190814/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster
20190814/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokster
20190814/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Download_This_Song
20190814/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeWire
20190814/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:LimeWire