AllPeers
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
AllPeers, a Prague/UK-based startup led by CEO Cedric Maloux, built a peer-to-peer Firefox extension for private file sharing. Using BitTorrent combined with a 'darknet' for anonymity, it let friends and family share pictures, music, videos, and folders securely, with no limits on file sizes — pitched as private sharing, not mass distribution.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Beta launch
On August 24, 2006, AllPeers releases a beta of its Firefox extension — described as the most ambitious Firefox extension to date — for private P2P file sharing among friends and family; a public beta follows after months of private testing.
- Shutdown
AllPeers shuts down, a casualty that raises doubts about the viability of commercializing P2P as a consumer service.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
In 2008, the P2P browser plug-in AllPeers shut down, ending its attempt to build a consumer business on private peer-to-peer file sharing.