Fascinating Weblog essay by Adam Curry about Pim Fortuyn’s assassination and how the mainstream media have got it wrong, wrong, wrong.

Apr 30 2002: A new study from Websense indicates that the number file-swapping, and peer-to-peer (P2P) websites, has grown by 535 percent in the past year, despite legal efforts to have them shut down.

According to the study findings, the number of P2P websites totals nearly 38,000.

Around 30 percent of the most popular downloadable applications on CNet’s Download site, are P2P services, says Websense.