aimeeandbeatles
watermelon
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Napster is a example of totally centralized network so totally vulnerable. It was similar to Megaupload in this aspect.
The ones like Edonkey or Bittorrent OTOH, while decentralized at some levels have weak points: For instance in Bittorrent case while you download the file directly from other peers you first need two centralized elements: a web page to post torrents and search for files and a central server called tracker to find other peers. So it is vulnerable.
There are other sharing protocols totally decentralized though without any central element to be shut down and consequently totally invulnerable to any governmental control. For instance Kademlia, Ares Galaxy, Freenet or Gnutella.
Actually I thought in a lot of cases a tracker wasn't really needed.
Actually, since we're on this subject of copyright, read this:
http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/
i hope the pic works....
Spoiler :
They managed to get a DMCA notice to an IP address belonging to a network printer