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Thank you for the explanation. I’m sure Akamai is a well respected company, but after rereading the FAQs on Akamai’s website, I see that it’s their clients that can use a person’s computer for storage, and downloading files to other computers.
Akamai says this feature has to be enabled, but from the Yahoo searches I have done, there are many people that have Net Session on their computers and don’t know it, and don’t know it’s enabled.
What is the Akamai NetSession Interface?
The Akamai NetSession Interface is a secure application that may be installed on your computer to improve the speed, reliability, and efficiency for downloads and streams from the Internet. It is used by many software and media publishers to deliver files or streams to you.
If the software or media publisher uses the feature and if you enable it, NetSession can also use a small amount of your upload bandwidth to enable other users of the NetSession Interface to download pieces of the publisher’s content from your computer.
http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/client_faq.html