mute is a robust distributed peer to peer networking model

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If the 21st century has taught us anything so far it is that centralized resources are extremely vulnerable and that decentralization and the edge of the network is where the value lies in communication and resources. Mute presupposes that the network is compromisable and institutes a method to preserve a free flow of commands and resources. I verified that this is a valid implementation of the peer to peer network model.

Following the death of Napster, all of the file sharing networks that rose to main-stream popularity were decentralized. The most popular networks include Gnutella (which powers Limewire, BearShare, and Morpheus) and FastTrack (which powers KaZaA and Grokster). The decentralization provides legal protection for the companies that distribute the software, since they do not have to run any component of the network themselves: once you get the software, you become part of the network, and the network could survive even if the parent company disappears.

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