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That's nothing pedantic about saying P2P is a kind of server. It can accept connections from clients and it can serve data to them. That's exactly what a server is.

If tomorrow I roll into Apache a feature for it to download files from other websites, it's effectively a P2P app. Are we not going to call Apache a server?

A web browser, on the other hand, is not a server.



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