response 88 of 104:

Sep 14 03:04 UTC 2002

The article unfortunately doesn't have many details.  There's a link to the
paper, but it requires some kind of registration.

I'm not sure it's so far-fetched.  Have you ever tried Gnutella?  It's
incredibly inefficient.  The amount of traffic when you aren't even doing
anything is amazing.  It's enough to swamp a 56K modem link all by itself.