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Deja Vu?

I’ve been thinking about this over the last few days and noticed Zeropaid’s Chris Hedgecock make the same point in this News.com article: Suprnova et al shutting down seems like such a clear parallel with Napster shutting down.  It’ll be important for the movie industry for about five minutes.  eDonkey has a similar system for swarm downloading.  The decentralized Exeem is already in development.  These suits are an interesting and important development, but they’re hardly more than a temporary stopgap.