Yes you could still be sharing files, as a firewall preventing incoming queries will not prevent sharing. Technically, the queries will be passed through the Kazaa supernode connection to you, and your computer will initiate the connection and "share" (ie. upload) the requested file.
Seems to me that there's quite a bit of confusion what peer-to-peer really is...
In academic environments, P2P is commonly defined as having one or more of these characteristics:
1. Peers should be able to freely offer services to other peers. 2. The addressing system should be independent of lower layer network addressing systems. 3. Peers should be assumed to be of variable connectivity.
Yes, this means that even some partly centralized systems are peer-to-peer. Like distributed computing and instant messaging. P2P is clearly beyond just file sharing, and it has been used for ages.
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Yes you could still be sharing files, as a firewall preventing incoming queries will not prevent sharing. Technically, the queries will be passed through the Kazaa supernode connection to you, and your computer will initiate the connection and "share" (ie. upload) the requested file.
Seems to me that there's quite a bit of confusion what peer-to-peer really is...
In academic environments, P2P is commonly defined as having one or more of these characteristics:
1. Peers should be able to freely offer services to other peers.
2. The addressing system should be independent of lower layer network addressing systems.
3. Peers should be assumed to be of variable connectivity.
Yes, this means that even some partly centralized systems are peer-to-peer. Like distributed computing and instant messaging. P2P is clearly beyond just file sharing, and it has been used for ages.