In the 1960s, Lawrence Roberts invented computer networking via data packets, which led directly to the development of ARPANet and the Internet . And now Roberts is trying to fix one of the Internet’s biggest problems: network overload caused by peer-to-peer file transfers.At Structure 08, he laid out the problem: 5 percent of the Net’s users are running P2P transfers taking up 80 percent of its capacity, which is dramatically limiting the available bandwidth available to everyone else.
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