At 04:59 PM 11/21/02 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:

-- According to Microsoft,

http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc

Darknet is being undermined by free riders.

They attribute this to 2 things: most are on 56Kbps, and legal harassment of large sharers is possible. I suspect it is mostly that broadband isn't too common yet.