[LINK] Distributed Cloud Computing (or P2P)

[Tom Koltai]

I was thinking today, "What's in a name"  - Cloud vs P2P

If it's a cloud then it has commercial value.
If it's P2P it can't have been officially sanctioned. 

If it's a cloud and it isn't backed-up it is lost forever.
If it's P2P it is automatically backed up with several users with
different .part files that contain a portion of the entire file.

If it's a cloud it will eventually fail - (or get purchased by your
competitors that now have access to all your confidential files)
If it's P2P the users will make sure it doesn't.

If it's in a cloud then it must be worth hacking into, defacing or
Malware injecting.
If it's on a P2P network then why hack it, it's everywhere.

If it's in the cloud, then someone, somewhere is making money out of it.
If it's on P2P then the users (Fans) are supporting it's existence out
of their own pockets.

No conclusion, just an observation on the status quo.

As an aside, P2P (emule/aries/torrent) all seem to be decreasing
dramatically as content pricing models become realistic and commercial
digital releases are almost day/date.


TomK