Napster, a free application that enables users to trade music with each other at no cost, is the poster child for an evolution of distributed computing architectures, the peer-to-peer architecture. (The recording industry would likely prefer the verb "pirate" to the word "trade" above.) People typically view Napster in one of the following ways:
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