Is digital distribution the future of buying video games? Will future retailers branch to downloads more than servicing physical goods? Read on for more insights from GP's blogger, Jazzersi.

Digital Distribution as we know it started in 1999 with Napster. Napster connected people in a peer to peer (P2P) network for the first time, and allowed them to share their files with one another, namely music files. This was a fantastic innovation, although unfortunately a humongously illegal one as it allowed copyright protected media to be shared for free. None the less, Napster set the foundations for the rest of Digital Distribution to follow.

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