Wednesday, July 6, 2016

P2P File Sharing

File sharing can be defined as the act of distributing or making available digitally stored materials. Some examples of this are music, movies, documents, photos, and games. P2P file sharing, on the other hand, allows users to have access to media files (music, movies, books, games) using a peer-to-peer software program that searches for other computers that are connected on the peer-to-peer network for the desired content.

Some examples of P2P sharing are shown in the Wired article that describes BitTorrent. In this article, the author describes how users use a P2P file sharing service that allows users to download content that other users put up. Other users can download this content very quickly if other users have downloaded this content as well because it gathers information from other users.

Citations:

The BitTorrent Effect by Clive Thompson, Wired, January 2005. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html

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