Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear.

So true even worse when you are behind a corp firewall!

sneaker net lives!

I wonder. If Client-Server architecture has envolved into Cloud Computing...

Which is predicted to be the next most-used architecure in the Internet.

Why has Peer-to-Peer architecture not envolved yet into something new technology? I think I need some googlings.

music & motion picture industries lose perceived control if Peer-to-Peer were allowed to work. imagine patch tuesday via bit torrent

Youfan: who said it is not? Skype uses peer-to-peer, and so does Yahoo Messenger. And if you think about,

it, peer-to-peer uses a client-server model when communicating between nodes, they simply use a decentralized node discovery

You could try Opera Unite for sharing files with others. It's easier than making 'em an account on your FTP server.

Dropbox

On the other hand: simple solutions work. Install, synchronize, register.... drive over

there are ways to do it, they just aren't mainstream. Netcast lets ya transfer files peer-to-peer, right?

Write a netcast extension for Firefox and the other major browsers, advertise, and— problem solved?

you could skype it over in the past

I just went through that last week with a 5GB file. Our damn web web server refused to permit downloads of files > 4GB

Dropbox... but driving over gives you the pretext of a visit.

Dropbox has a limit unless ya pay em.

you need to read the fine print on Dropbox. My company banned us from using for work. There are words where they own what you save.

We shouldn't have to use something like Dropbox. It really ought to be simple to share large files. In the end I build a server =/

p2p should be the way to go

or, drive over with a pendrive