CNET.com - The P2P myth: Business, bandwidth may dash hopes of a peer-to-peer utopia. A great article in four parts (with informative sidebars in each) covering:

• Independent-minded peer-to-peer developers are already fighting corporate influence. But the Internet's evolution shows that commercial control of such technology may be inevitable.
• Regardless of their creators' high-minded ambitions, peer-to-peer networks' growth could be held back by the speed and capacity of home computers.
• Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are salivating at the prospects of a new digital industry, but the lack of central control presents unique obstacles to traditional business models.
• Peer-to-peer proponents say traditional ideas about computing could be redefined by the potential to use the processing power and storage space of millions of PCs.