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Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking with a personal twist is 'designed to let people trade files one-to-one or among a selected group. Among services are MediaMax and Myfabrik, which avoid file-sharing technology totally by allowing subscribers to store their digital items on a central server. Files have fewer limits on size than e-mail, and the features for friends are only a click away. One service, YouSendit, sends over 30TBs of files among members, which amounts to the equivalent of the contents of about 1,000 laptops. MediaMax from Streamload sends 3 million files among members and stores 650TBs of their data, companies with revenue are Streamload, Transmedia Glide, and YouSendIt. TransMedia also says it is profitable. Those companies that have raised venture capital are Fabrik, Pando, and YouSendIt. AllPeers software, an extension to Firefox, turns the browser into a file-sharing service that has a buddy list showing who is online and what is available to trade. The personal peer-to-peer (P2P) sites plan to make money in various ways that may include content delivery fees, peer-produced media sales, subscription fees, software licensing, and advertising.
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