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Gene Kan isn't a scary guy. He weighs maybe 60 kg soaking wet, has an easy laugh, a Mazda RX-7 fetish and a taste for writing twisted haiku. But the entertainment industry is terrified of him. Why? Kan and his team have given the idea of file sharing popularized by Napster a great leap forward with a search engine called InfraSearch. Still in development, it will be able to run down a huge array of files from any computer connected to a network — small or large — without going through a digital dating service like Napster. Dubbed peer-to-peer (P2P in...

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