Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Skype-ing work (14 Nov 2003) Like Kazaa, Skype's founders describe it as 'disruptive technology'. But for many small organisations file-sharing services such as p2p actually enable rather than disrupt what they can achieve, because they allow users to cheaply, and often freely, locate content directly from the individual who wishes to share it, and to download it from there without a central point of management. It just so happens that most of the content that gets shared through these services is under copyright, and its distribution over the web (like pirating CDs) is illegal - although the Kazaa website encourages musicians, producers, photographers, poets and artists to distribute works they have created themselves, alongside media that is in the public domain. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art09.htm Read 76 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Tackling Usability Gotchas in Large-scale Site Redesigns     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy