Publicly funded research remains useful. It gave us not only the Web and Netscape, but European researchers have been quietly developing true distributed peer to peer systems, which fullfill the promise of equal users.

Please do check out:

Tribler : http://www.tribler.org
Peerple : http://www.peerple.net
Wipeer : http://www.wipeer.com

Our friend and expert Gwendal Simon can explain the details on request: gwendal dot simon at gmail dot com